1 Chronicles 23:29

“Both for the shewbread, etc.] Also to make and get that ready every week for the priests to set on the shewbread table, when they took off the other that had stood a week, (see <130932>1 Chronicles 9:32) and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in the pan, and for that which is fried; to deliver out the flour of which these several things were made, (see <130931>1 Chronicles 9:31), and (<030201>Leviticus 2:1), and for all manner of measures and size; as the hin and the ephah, and the several parts of them for things both liquid and dry, which were in their keeping, and according to which they gave out the proper quantity of oil, and…”

“All measure - All measures used either in sacred or civil things, the publick standards whereof were kept in the temple; and therefore the care of keeping them inviolable and producing them upon occasion, musts needs belong to the priests, and under them to the Levites, who were to examine other measures and all things by them, as occasion required; that so the priests might be at leisure for their higher and greater employments. 1 Chronicles 23:30”

“for the showbread: It was the priests' office to place this bread before the Lord; and it was their privilege to feed on the old loaves when they were replaced by the new. Ch1 9:31, Ch1 9:32; Exo 25:30; Lev 24:5-9; Kg1 7:48; Ch2 13:11, Ch2 29:18; Neh 10:33; Mat 12:4; Heb 9:2 the fine flour: Ch1 9:29-34; Lev 6:20-23 unleavened: Lev 2:4-7, Lev 7:9 pan: or, flat plate for all manner of measure: The standards of all weights and measures were in the sanctuary; and therefore the Levites had the inspection of weights and measures of every kind, that no fraud might in this way be committed. Honesty is inseparably connected with piety; and hence the Levites, being sufficiently numerous, were employed…”