Bible Verses About Shewbread

"You are to make a table of acacia-wood three feet long, eighteen inches wide and eighteen inches high.

Overlay it with pure gold, and put a molding of gold around the top of it.

Make around it a rim a handbreadth wide, and put a molding of gold around the rim.

Make four gold rings for it, and attach the rings to the four corners, near its four legs.

The rings to hold the poles used to carry the table are to be placed close to the rim.

Make the poles of acacia-wood, overlay them with gold, and use them to carry the table.

"Make its dishes, pans, bowls and pitchers of pure gold.

On the table you are to place the bread of the presence in my presence always.

He put the table in the tent of meeting on the side of the tabernacle facing north, outside the curtain.

He arranged a row of bread on it before ADONAI, as ADONAI had ordered Moshe.

"You are to take fine flour and use it to bake twelve loaves, one gallon per loaf.

Arrange them in two rows, six in a row, on the pure table before ADONAI.

Put frankincense with each row to be an offering made by fire to ADONAI in place of the bread and as a reminder of it.

Regularly, every Shabbat, he is to arrange them before ADONAI ; they are from the people of Isra'el, as a covenant forever.

They will belong to Aharon and his sons; and they are to eat them in a holy place; because for him they are, of the offerings for ADONAI made by fire, especially holy. This is a permanent law."

On the table of showbread they are to spread a blue cloth and place on it the dishes, incense pans, offering bowls and pitchers. The perpetual bread is to remain on the table.

The cohen answered David, "I don't have any regular bread; however, there is consecrated bread - but only if the guards have abstained from women.

David answered the cohen, "Of course women have been kept away from us, as on previous campaigns. Whenever I go out on campaign, the men's gear is clean, even if it's an ordinary trip. How much more, then, today, when they will be putting something consecrated in their packs!"

So the cohen gave him consecrated bread, because there was no bread there other than the showbread that had been removed from before ADONAI to be replaced by freshly baked bread on the day the old bread was removed.

Some of their kinsmen, from the descendants of the K'hati, were in charge of preparing the showbread every Shabbat.

They were to assist with the showbread and the finely ground flour needed for grain offerings, no matter whether of matzah, pan-baked bread or mixed with oil, and no matter what shape or size.

Here, I am about to build a house for the name of ADONAI my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before Him incense made of sweet spices; the house will also be for the continuing showbread and for the burnt offerings presented every morning and evening, on the shabbats, at every Rosh-Hodesh, and at the designated times of ADONAI our God. This is a perpetual regulation for Isra'el.

"We will impose on ourselves a yearly tax of one-third of a shekel [one-seventh of an ounce of silver] for the service of the house of our

for the showbread, for the regular grain offering, for the regular burnt offering, for [the offerings] on Shabbat, on Rosh-Hodesh, at the designated times and at other holy times, for the sin offerings to make atonement for Isra'el, and for all the work connected with the house of our God.

But he said to them, "Haven't you ever read what David did when he and those with him were hungry?