and thou hast put on the table bread of the presence before Me continually.Exodus 25:30 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleShew-bread - לחם פנים lechem panim literally, bread of faces; so called, either because they were placed before the presence or face of God in the sanctuary, or because they were made square, as the Jews will have it. It is probable that they were in the form of cubes or hexaedrons, each side presenting the same appearance; and hence the Jews might suppose they were called the bread or loaves of faces: but the Hebrew text seems to intimate that they were called the bread of faces, פנים panim, because, as the Lord says, they were set לפני lephanai, before my Face. These loaves or cakes were twelve, representing, as is generally supposed, the twelve tribes of Israel. They were in two rows of six each. On the top of each row there was a golden dish with frankincense, which was burned before the Lord, as a memorial, at the end of the week, when the old loaves were removed and replaced by new ones, the priests taking the former for their domestic use.
It is more difficult to ascertain the use of these, or what they represented, than almost any other emblem in the whole Jewish economy. Many have conjectured their meaning, and I feel no disposition to increase their number by any addition of my own. The note on Exodus 25:23, from Dr. Cudworth, appears to me more rational than any thing else I have met with. The tabernacle was God's house, and in it he had his table, his bread, his wine, candlestick, etc., to show them that he had taken up his dwelling among them. See Clarke's note on Exodus 25:23.
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Exodus 35:13 The table, and his staves, and all his vessels, and the show bread,
Exodus 39:36 The table, and all the vessels thereof, and the show bread,
Leviticus 24:5,6 And you shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake...
Numbers 4:7 And on the table of show bread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls...
1 Samuel 21:6 So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there but the show bread, that was taken from before the LORD...
1 Chronicles 9:32 And other of their brothers, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the show bread, to prepare it every sabbath.
1 Chronicles 23:29 Both for the show bread, and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in the pan...
2 Chronicles 13:11 And they burn to the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense...
Malachi 1:7,12 You offer polluted bread on my altar; and you say, Wherein have we polluted you? In that you say...
Matthew 12:4 How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the show bread, which was not lawful for him to eat...
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