12 Loaves

Leviticus 22-24

On a weekly basis, the Israelites were to bake 12 loaves of bread for Aaron and his descendants to be delivered on the Sabbath and laid out on the gold table. What's so special about the loaves other than the fact that they were holy onto the Lord. Never noticed it before, but each loaf was made from two tenths of an ephah of flour. Just how much flour is that? An ephah is about the same as a bushel. A bushel is about 35 liters. So these loaves were each made from about 7 liters of flour. A normal loaf today contains 3 cups of flour... so these loaves were about 10 times larger than our normal loaf of bread. Twelve of these loaves a week makes good eats.