KJV King James Version
Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, [being taken] from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.
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Leviticus 24:8
Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, [being taken] from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Every Sabbath day the bread is to be set out before the LORD on behalf of the Israelites as a permanent covenant.
WEB World English Bible
Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before Yahweh continually. It is on the behalf of the children of Israel an everlasting covenant.
ASV American Standard Version
Every sabbath day he shall set it in order before Jehovah continually; it is on the behalf of the children of Israel, an everlasting covenant.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
‘On each sabbath-day he arrangeth it before Jehovah continually, from the sons of Israel—a covenant age-during;
Surrounding context — Leviticus 24
5 And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.
6 And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD.
7 And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon [each] row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, [even] an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
8 Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, [being taken] from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.
9 And it shall be Aaron’s and his sons’; and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it [is] most holy unto him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.
10 And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father [was] an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the Israelitish [woman] and a man of Israel strove together in the camp;
11 And the Israelitish woman’s son blasphemed the name [of the LORD], and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother’s name [was] Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:)
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
בְּי֨וֹםH3117 · yomdayהַשַּׁבָּ֜תH7676 · shab.batSabbathבְּי֣וֹםH3117 · yomdayהַשַּׁבָּ֗תH7676 · shab.batSabbathיַֽעַרְכֶ֛נּוּH6186 · a.rakhto arrangeלִפְנֵ֥יH6440 · pa.nehface: beforeיְהוָ֖הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDתָּמִ֑ידH8548 · ta.midcontinuallyמֵאֵ֥תH854 · etwithבְּנֵֽי־H1121 · benson: childיִשְׂרָאֵ֖לH3478 · yis.ra.elIsraelבְּרִ֥יתH1285 · be.ritcovenantעוֹלָֽם׃H5769 · o.lamforever: enduring
Cross-references
Numbers 4:7And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and covers to cover withal: and the continual bread shall be thereon:2 Chronicles 2:4Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate [it] to him, [and] to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the LORD our God. This [is an ordinance] for ever to Israel.1 Chronicles 9:32And [other] of their brethren, of the sons of the Kohathites, [were] over the shewbread, to prepare [it] every sabbath.Matthew 12:3-5But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;Nehemiah 10:33For the shewbread, and for the continual meat offering, and for the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy [things], and for the sin offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and [for] all the work of the house of our God.1 Chronicles 23:29Both for the shewbread, and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for [that which is baked in] the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all manner of measure and size;
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