4. The lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the Lord must be tended continually.
5. ‘Take the finest flour and bake twelve loaves of bread, using one fifth of an ephah for each loaf.
6. Arrange them in two piles, six in each pile, on the table of pure gold before the Lord.
7. By each pile put some pure incense as a memorial portion to represent the bread and to be a food offering presented to the Lord.
8. This bread is to be set out before the Lord regularly, Sabbath after Sabbath, on behalf of the Israelites, as a lasting covenant.
9. It belongs to Aaron and his sons, who are to eat it in the sanctuary area, because it is a most holy part of their perpetual share of the food offerings presented to the Lord.’