Light and bread and the Holy name. Lev 24:1-23
INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD TESTAMENT
OUT LINE OF THE BOOK LEVITICUS
A Manual of Worship at the Tabernacle
IV. THE LAWS OF HOLINESS AND SACRED FESTIVALS,
26. What is the teaching of the candlestick and the showbread in the Tabernacle?
THE LAMPS
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
“Command the children of Israel to bring to you clear oil from beaten olives for the light [of the golden lampstand], to make a lamp burn continually.
Outside the veil of the Testimony [between the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place] in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron shall always keep the lamps burning before the LORD from evening until morning; it shall be a permanent statute throughout your generations.
He shall keep the lamps burning on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD continually. [Rev_1:12-18]
BREAD FOR THE TABERNACLE
“Then you shall take fine flour and bake twelve cakes (bread of the Presence, showbread) with it; two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake (loaf).
You shall set the bread of the Presence (showbread) in two rows, six in a row, on the pure gold table before the LORD.
You shall put pure frankincense [in two censers, one] beside each row, so that it may be with the bread as a memorial portion, an offering by fire to the LORD.
Every Sabbath day Aaron shall arrange the showbread before the LORD continually; it is an everlasting covenant for the Israelites.
The bread of the Presence shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a sacred place, for it is for Aaron a most holy portion of the offerings by fire to the LORD, his portion forever.”
PUNISHMENT FOR BLASPHEMY
Now the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the Israelites, and he and a man of Israel quarreled and struggled with each other in the camp.
The Israelite woman’s son blasphemed the Name [of the LORD] and cursed. So they brought him to Moses. (Now his mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)
They put him in custody until the will and command of the LORD might be made clear to them.
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
“Bring the one who has cursed [the LORD] outside the camp, and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head [as witnesses to his guilt]; then let all the congregation stone him.
You shall speak to the Israelites, saying, ‘Whoever curses his God will bear his sin [through his own death].
Further, the one who blasphemes the name of the LORD shall most certainly be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him. The stranger as well as the native-born shall be put to death when he blasphemes the Name [of the LORD].
AN EYE FOR AN EYE
‘If a man takes the life of any human being [unlawfully], he shall most certainly be put to death.
The one who kills an animal shall replace it, animal for animal.
If a man injures his neighbor (fellow citizen), whatever he has done shall be done to him:
fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; just as he has injured a man, so shall the same be done to him. [Mat_5:38-42; Mat_7:2]
The one who kills an animal shall replace it; but he who kills a human being [unlawfully] shall be put to death.
You shall have one standard of law for the stranger among you as well as for the native, for I am the LORD your God.'”
Then Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they brought the one who had cursed [the LORD] outside the camp and stoned him with stones. Thus the Israelites did just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Comments by
F.B.Meyer
On
Leviticus 24:1-23
LIGHT AND BREAD AND THE HOLY NAME
The words “Before the Lord” are twice repeated in the opening paragraph. The pure lamplight, emblematic of the influence of a religious life; and the showbread, set on the golden table, emblematic of lives of obedience and devotion, which are well-pleasing to God, are both said to be “before the Lord.” We are reminded of the command to Abram, “Walk before me and be thou perfect;” and of the words of the dying Jacob, “The God before whom my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, did walk.” This implies the continual consciousness of the presence of God. We all possess what may be termed a sub-consciousness, which lies beneath our ordinary sense. Let that be God filled!
What a pitiable condition that half-breed was in! May we be Israelites indeed, in whom is no guile! How they reverenced the very name of God. See 3Jn_1:7.
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