30 And you shall set (A)the bread of the [a]Presence on the table before Me continually.

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  1. Exodus 25:30 Lit Face

30 Put the bread of the Presence(A) on this table to be before me at all times.

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(A)Then you shall take fine flour and bake twelve [a]cakes with it; [b]two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake. And you shall set them in two rows, six to a row, on the (B)pure gold table before the Lord. You shall put pure frankincense on each row so that it may be (C)a memorial portion for the bread, an offering by fire to the Lord. (D)Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before the Lord (E)continually; it is an everlasting covenant [c]for the sons of Israel. And (F)it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy to him from the Lords offerings by fire, his portion forever.”

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  1. Leviticus 24:5 I.e., ring-shaped bread loaves
  2. Leviticus 24:5 About 0.13 cubic feet or 0.004 cubic meters
  3. Leviticus 24:8 Lit from

“Take the finest flour and bake twelve loaves of bread,(A) using two-tenths of an ephah[a](B) for each loaf. Arrange them in two stacks, six in each stack, on the table of pure gold(C) before the Lord. 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. 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. 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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  1. Leviticus 24:5 That is, probably about 7 pounds or about 3.2 kilograms
  2. Leviticus 24:7 Or representative

how he entered the house of God, and (A)they ate the [a]consecrated bread, which was not lawful for him to eat nor for those with him, but for the priests alone?

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  1. Matthew 12:4 Lit loaves of presentation

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.(A)

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