Leviticus 24:1-9

High Priest or Homeless Bum?...

Leviticus 24:1-9

1 The LORD said to Moses, 2 "Command the Israelites to bring you clear oil of pressed olives for the light so that the lamps may be kept burning continually. 3 Outside the curtain of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron is to tend the lamps before the LORD from evening till morning, continually. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. 4 The lamps on the pure gold lampstand before the LORD must be tended continually. 5 "Take fine flour and bake twelve loaves of bread,* using two-tenths of an ephah+ for each loaf. 6 Set them in two rows, six in each row, on the table of pure gold* before the LORD . 7 Along each row put some pure incense as a memorial portion to represent the bread and to be an offering made to the LORD by fire. 8 This bread is to be set out before the LORD regularly,* Sabbath after Sabbath, on behalf of the Israelites, as a lasting covenant. 9 It belongs to Aaron and his sons,* who are to eat it in a holy place, because it is a most holy part of their regular share of the offerings made to the LORD by fire."

*24:5 - Ex 25:30 - Put the bread of the Presence on this table to be before me at all times.

+24:5 - That is, probably about 4 quarts (about 4.5 liters)

*24:6 - Ex 25:23-30 - "Make a table of acacia wood-two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high. Overlay it with pure gold and make a gold molding around it. Also make around it a rim a handbreadth wide and put a gold molding on the rim. Make four gold rings for the table and fasten them to the four corners, where the four legs are. The rings are to be close to the rim to hold the poles used in carrying the table. Make the poles of acacia wood, overlay them with gold and carry the table with them. And make its plates and dishes of pure gold, as well as its pitchers and bowls for the pouring out of offerings. Put the bread of the Presence on this table to be before me at all times.

*24:8 - Nu 4:7 - "Over the table of the Presence they are to spread a blue cloth and put on it the plates, dishes and bowls, and the jars for drink offerings; the bread that is continually there is to remain on it.

*24:8 - 2Ch 2:4 - Now I am about to build a temple for the Name of the LORD my God and to dedicate it to him for burning fragrant incense before him, for setting out the consecrated bread regularly, and for making burnt offerings every morning and evening and on Sabbaths and New Moons and at the appointed feasts of the LORD our God. This is a lasting ordinance for Israel.

*24:9 - Mt 12:4 - He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread--which was not lawful for them to do, but only for the priests.

*24:9 - Mk 2:26 - In the days of Abiathar the high priest, he entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread, which is lawful only for priests to eat. And he also gave some to his companions."

*24:9 - Lk 6:4 - He entered the house of God, and taking the consecrated bread, he ate what is lawful only for priests to eat. And he also gave some to his companions."

it stands to reason then, that He (being Jesus) would consider himself one of the sons of Aaron, seeing as how he ate the bread reserved for them alone in the Temple...that would make him a preist of God, wouldn't it?...but no, He must have just been some crazy dude in off the streets to walk right in and eat that stuff...right?...