y are to sacrifice, and how they
are to rest entirely, and must slay sacrifices, in order to feast upon
them.

7. However, out of the common charges, baked bread [was set on the table
of shew-bread], without leaven, of twenty-four tenth deals of flour, for
so much is spent upon this bread; two heaps of these were baked, they
were baked the day before the sabbath, but were brought into the holy
place on the morning of the sabbath, and set upon the holy table, six on
a heap, one loaf still standing over against another; where two golden
cups full of frankincense were also set upon them, and there they
remained till another sabbath, and then other loaves were brought in
their stead, while the loaves were given to the priests for their food,
and the frankincense was burnt in that sacred fire wherein all their
offerings were burnt also; and so other frankincense was set upon the
loaves instead of what was there before. The high priest also, of his
own charges, offered a sacrifice, and that twice every day. It was made
of flour mingled with oil, and gently baked by the fire; the quantity
was one tenth deal of flour; he brought the half of it to the fire
in the morning, and the other half at night. The account of these
sacrifices I shall give more accurately hereafter; but I think I have
premised what for the present may be sufficient concerning them.

CHAPTER 11. Of The Purifications.

1. Moses took out the tribe of Levi from communicating with the rest of
the people, and set them apart to be a holy tribe; and purified them
by water taken from perpetual springs, and with such sacrifices as were
usually offered to God on the like occasions. He delivered to them also
the tabernacle, and the sacred vessels, and the other curtains, which
were made for covering the tabernacle, that they might minister under
the conduct of the priests, who had been already consecrated to God.

2. He also determined concerning animals; which of them might be used
for food, and which they were obliged to abstain from; which matters,
when this work shall give me occasion, shall be further explained; and
the causes shall be added by which he was moved to allot some of them
to be our food, and enjoined us to abstain from others. However, he
entirely forbade us the use of blood for food, and esteemed it to
contain the soul and spirit. He also forbade us to eat the flesh of an
animal that died of itself, as also the caul, and the fat of goats,