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1 Samuel 21:4
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1 Samuel 21:4
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4 “We don’t have any regular bread,” the priest replied. “But there is the holy bread, which you can have if your young men have not slept with any women recently.”
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1 Samuel 21:4
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1 Samuel 21:4
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4 But the priest answered David, “I don’t have any ordinary bread(A) on hand; however, there is some consecrated(B) bread here—provided the men have kept(C) themselves from women.”
Matthew 12:3-4
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Matthew 12:3-4
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3 Jesus said to them, “Haven’t you read in the Scriptures what David did when he and his companions were hungry? 4 He went into the house of God, and he and his companions broke the law by eating the sacred loaves of bread that only the priests are allowed to eat.
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Matthew 12:3-4
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Matthew 12:3-4
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3 He answered, “Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry?(A) 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.(B)
Exodus 19:15
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Exodus 19:15
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15 He told them, “Get ready for the third day, and until then abstain from having sexual intercourse.”
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Exodus 19:15
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Exodus 19:15
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15 Then he said to the people, “Prepare yourselves for the third day. Abstain(A) from sexual relations.”
Exodus 25:30
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Exodus 25:30
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30 Place the Bread of the Presence on the table to remain before me at all times.
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Exodus 25:30
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Exodus 25:30
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30 Put the bread of the Presence(A) on this table to be before me at all times.
1 Corinthians 7:5
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1 Corinthians 7:5
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5 Do not deprive each other of sexual relations, unless you both agree to refrain from sexual intimacy for a limited time so you can give yourselves more completely to prayer. Afterward, you should come together again so that Satan won’t be able to tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
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1 Corinthians 7:5
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1 Corinthians 7:5
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5 Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time,(A) so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan(B) will not tempt you(C) because of your lack of self-control.
Zechariah 7:3
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Zechariah 7:3
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3 They were to ask this question of the prophets and the priests at the Temple of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies: “Should we continue to mourn and fast each summer on the anniversary of the Temple’s destruction,[a] as we have done for so many years?”
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- 7:3 Hebrew mourn and fast in the fifth month. The Temple had been destroyed in the fifth month of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar (August 586 B.c.); see 2 Kgs 25:8.
Zechariah 7:3
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Zechariah 7:3
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3 by asking the priests of the house of the Lord Almighty and the prophets, “Should I mourn(A) and fast in the fifth(B) month, as I have done for so many years?”
1 Samuel 21:6
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1 Samuel 21:6
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6 Since there was no other food available, the priest gave him the holy bread—the Bread of the Presence that was placed before the Lord in the Tabernacle. It had just been replaced that day with fresh bread.
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1 Samuel 21:6
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1 Samuel 21:6
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6 So the priest gave him the consecrated bread,(A) since there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence that had been removed from before the Lord and replaced by hot bread on the day it was taken away.
Leviticus 24:5-9
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Leviticus 24:5-9
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5 “You must bake twelve flat loaves of bread from choice flour, using four quarts[a] of flour for each loaf. 6 Place the bread before the Lord on the pure gold table, and arrange the loaves in two stacks, with six loaves in each stack. 7 Put some pure frankincense near each stack to serve as a representative offering, a special gift presented to the Lord. 8 Every Sabbath day this bread must be laid out before the Lord as a gift from the Israelites; it is an ongoing expression of the eternal covenant. 9 The loaves of bread will belong to Aaron and his descendants, who must eat them in a sacred place, for they are most holy. It is the permanent right of the priests to claim this portion of the special gifts presented to the Lord.”
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- 24:5 Hebrew 2⁄10 of an ephah [4.4 liters].
Leviticus 24:5-9
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Leviticus 24:5-9
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5 “Take the finest flour and bake twelve loaves of bread,(A) using two-tenths of an ephah[a](B) for each loaf. 6 Arrange them in two stacks, six in each stack, on the table of pure gold(C) before the Lord. 7 By each stack put some pure incense(D) as a memorial[b] portion(E) to represent the bread and to be a food offering presented to the Lord. 8 This bread is to be set out before the Lord regularly,(F) Sabbath after Sabbath,(G) on behalf of the Israelites, as a lasting covenant. 9 It belongs to Aaron and his sons,(H) who are to eat it in the sanctuary area,(I) because it is a most holy(J) part of their perpetual share of the food offerings presented to the Lord.”
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- Leviticus 24:5 That is, probably about 7 pounds or about 3.2 kilograms
- Leviticus 24:7 Or representative
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