1 ^bThe Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Command the people of Israel to bring you pure oil from beaten olives for the lamp, that a light may be kept burning regularly. 3 Outside the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall arrange it from evening to morning before the Lord regularly. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. 4 He shall arrange the lamps on the ^clampstand of pure gold¹ before the Lord regularly.

5 “You shall take fine flour and bake twelve ^dloaves from it; two tenths of an ephah² shall be in each loaf. 6 And you shall set them in two piles, six in a pile, ^eon the table of pure gold³ before the Lord. 7 And you shall put pure frankincense on each pile, that it may go with the bread as a memorial portion as a food offering to the Lord. 8 ^fEvery Sabbath day Aaron shall arrange it before the Lord regularly; it is from the people of Israel as a covenant forever. 9 And ^git shall be for Aaron and his sons, and ^hthey shall eat it in a holy place, since it is for him a most holy portion out of the Lord’s food offerings, a perpetual due.”