Bread for the Tabernacle

⁵ “You shall take fine flour and bake twelve ^(A)loaves from it; two tenths of an ephah^[a] shall be in each loaf.

³⁰ And you shall set the ^(A)bread of the Presence on the table before me regularly.

²³ and arranged the bread on it before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

³¹ Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord came, saying, ^(A)“Israel shall be your name,”

⁴ And the priest answered David, “I have no common bread on hand, but there is ^(A)holy bread—^(B)if the young men have kept themselves from women.” ⁵ And David answered the priest, “Truly women have been kept from us as always when I go on an expedition. The vessels of the young men are holy even when it is an ordinary journey. How much more today will their vessels be holy?”

Greeting

1 ^(A)James, a servant^[a] of God and ^(B)of the Lord Jesus Christ,

To ^(C)the twelve tribes in ^(D)the Dispersion:

Greetings.

^7 (A)to which ^(B)our twelve tribes hope to ^(C)attain, as they earnestly worship night and day. And for this hope ^(D)I am accused by Jews, O king!

⁴ how he entered the house of God and ate ^(A)the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him to eat nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests?