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and one loaf of bread, one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before Yahweh.
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The Dedicated Bread Offering
Commentators explain that the loaf, cake, and wafer were specific components of a grain offering (or "meat offering") that always accompanied a peace offering. By placing the basket "before the Lord," likely in the tabernacle court, these items were formally set apart and dedicated to God's use in the priestly consecration ceremony.
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Exodus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The consecration of the priests. See the notes to Leviticus 8–9.
Exodus 29:4: Door of the tabernacle - Entrance of the te…
19th Century
Anglican
The basket ... that is before the Lord. —Compare to Exodus 29:3. The objects mentioned formed the “meat offering,” which …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And one loaf of bread Of unleavened bread, as in (Exodus 29:2) large bread is meant, as Ben Melech obser…
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Aaron and his sons were to be set apart for the priest's office with ceremony and solemnity.
Our Lord Jesus is the great High Priest of our …
