4 He must continually tend the lamps on the pure gold lampstand in the Lord’s presence.
5 “Take fine flour and bake it into 12 loaves; each loaf is to be made with four quarts.
6 Arrange them in two rows, six to a row, on the pure gold table before the Lord.
7 Place pure frankincense near each row, so that it may serve as a memorial portion for the bread and a fire offering to the Lord.
8 The bread is to be set out before the Lord every Sabbath day as a perpetual covenant obligation on the part of the Israelites.
9 It belongs to Aaron and his sons, who are to eat it in a holy place, for it is the holiest portion for him from the fire offerings to the Lord; this is a permanent rule.”
10 Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father was among the Israelites. A fight broke out in the camp between the Israelite woman’s son and an Israelite man.