1 Chronicles 23:29

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

They also took care of the bread that is displayed, the flour for offerings, the unleavened wafers, the round cakes, the mixing, and all the measuring.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּלְלֶ֨חֶם הַֽמַּעֲרֶ֜כֶת וּלְסֹ֤לֶת לְמִנְחָה֙ וְלִרְקִיקֵ֣י הַמַּצּ֔וֹת וְלַֽמַּחֲבַ֖ת וְלַמֻּרְבָּ֑כֶת וּלְכָל־מְשׂוּרָ֖ה וּמִדָּֽה׃

Transliteration

And-for-leḥem the-maʿăreḵeṯ and-for-sōleṯ for-minḥāh and-for-rəqîqê the-maṣṣôṯ and-for-the-maḥăḇaṯ and-for-the-murbāḵeṯ and-for-all-məśûrāh and-middāh

Grammar Details

• *leḥem*: noun, masculine singular - bread
• *maʿăreḵeṯ*: noun, feminine singular with definite article - the arrangement
• *sōleṯ*: noun, feminine singular - fine flour
• *minḥāh*: noun, feminine singular - offering
• *rəqîqê*: noun, masculine plural construct - wafers of
• *maṣṣôṯ*: noun, feminine plural with definite article - the unleavened bread
• *maḥăḇaṯ*: noun, feminine singular with definite article - the pan/griddle
• *murbāḵeṯ*: noun, feminine singular with definite article - the mixed/saturated
• *məśûrāh*: noun, feminine singular - measure
• *middāh*: noun, feminine singular - measurement

Word Meanings

• *leḥem* *maʿăreḵeṯ*: showbread, bread of arrangement, arranged bread
• *murbāḵeṯ*: that which is mixed with oil, well-mixed offering

Referenced Verses

• Lev 19:35-36 : 35 You must not do injustice in the regulation of measures, whether of length, weight, or volume. 36 You must have honest balances, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt.
• Lev 24:5-9 : 5 “You must take choice wheat flour and bake twelve loaves; there must be two tenths of an ephah of flour in each loaf, 6 and you must set them in two rows, six in a row, on the ceremonially pure table before the LORD. 7 You must put pure frankincense on each row, and it will become a memorial portion for the bread, a gift to the LORD. 8 Each Sabbath day Aaron must arrange it before the LORD continually; this portion is from the Israelites as a perpetual covenant. 9 It will belong to Aaron and his sons, and they must eat it in a holy place because it is most holy to him, a perpetual allotted portion from the gifts of the LORD.
• Exod 25:30 : 30 You are to set the Bread of the Presence on the table before me continually.
• Lev 2:4-7 : 4 Processed Grain Offerings“‘When you present an offering of grain baked in an oven, it must be made of choice wheat flour baked into unleavened loaves mixed with olive oil or unleavened wafers smeared with olive oil. 5 If your offering is a grain offering made on the griddle, it must be choice wheat flour mixed with olive oil, unleavened. 6 Crumble it in pieces and pour olive oil on it– it is a grain offering. 7 If your offering is a grain offering made in a pan, it must be made of choice wheat flour deep fried in olive oil.
• Lev 6:20-23 : 20 “This is the offering of Aaron and his sons which they must present to the LORD on the day when he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of choice wheat flour as a continual grain offering, half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening. 21 It must be made with olive oil on a griddle and you must bring it well soaked, so you must present a grain offering of broken pieces as a soothing aroma to the LORD. 22 The high priest who succeeds him from among his sons must do it. It is a perpetual statute; it must be offered up in smoke as a whole offering to the LORD. 23 Every grain offering of a priest must be a whole offering; it must not be eaten.”
• Lev 7:9 : 9 Every grain offering which is baked in the oven or made in the pan or on the griddle belongs to the priest who presented it.
• Num 3:50 : 50 From the firstborn males of the Israelites he collected the money, 1,365 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.
• 1 Kgs 7:48 : 48 Solomon also made all these items for the LORD’s temple: the gold altar, the gold table on which was kept the Bread of the Presence,
• 1 Chr 9:29-34 : 29 Some of them were in charge of the equipment and articles of the sanctuary, as well as the flour, wine, olive oil, incense, and spices. 30 (But some of the priests mixed the spices.) 31 Mattithiah, a Levite, the firstborn son of Shallum the Korahite, was in charge of baking the bread for offerings. 32 Some of the Kohathites, their relatives, were in charge of preparing the bread that is displayed each Sabbath. 33 The musicians and Levite family leaders stayed in rooms at the sanctuary and were exempt from other duties, for day and night they had to carry out their assigned tasks. 34 These were the family leaders of the Levites, as listed in their genealogical records. They lived in Jerusalem.
• 2 Chr 13:11 : 11 They offer burnt sacrifices to the LORD every morning and every evening, along with fragrant incense. They arrange the Bread of the Presence on a ritually clean table and light the lamps on the gold lampstand every evening. Certainly we are observing the LORD our God’s regulations, but you have rejected him.
• 2 Chr 29:18 : 18 They went to King Hezekiah and said:“We have purified the entire temple of the LORD, including the altar of burnt sacrifice and all its equipment, and the table for the Bread of the Presence and all its equipment.
• Neh 10:33 : 33 for the loaves of presentation and for the regular grain offerings and regular burnt offerings, for the Sabbaths, for the new moons, for the appointed meetings, for the holy offerings, for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the temple of our God.
• Matt 12:4 : 4 how he entered the house of God and they ate the sacred bread, which was against the law for him or his companions to eat, but only for the priests?
• Heb 9:2 : 2 For a tent was prepared, the outer one, which contained the lampstand, the table, and the presentation of the loaves; this is called the holy place.