1. The Lord said to Moses,
2. ‘Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil of pressed olives for the light so that the lamps may be kept burning continually.
3. Outside the curtain that shields the ark of the covenant law in the tent of meeting, Aaron is to tend the lamps before the Lord from evening till morning, continually. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.
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.