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Bible Verses About Shewbread

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  1. Thou shalt make a table also of setim wood, of two cubits in length, and a cubit in breadth, and a cubit and a half in height.

  2. And thou shalt overlay it with the purest gold: and thou shalt make to it a golden ledge round about.

  3. And to the ledge itself a polished crown, four inches high; and over the same another little golden crown.

  4. Thou shalt prepare also four golden rings, and shalt put them in the four corners of the same table, over each foot.

  5. Under the crown shall the golden rings be, that the bars may be put through them, and the table may be carried.

  6. The bars also themselves thou shalt make of setim wood, and shalt overlay them with gold, to bear up the table.

  7. Thou shalt prepare also dishes, and bowls, censers, and cups, wherein the libations are to be offered, of the purest gold.

  8. And thou shalt set upon the table loaves of proposition in my sight always.

  9. He set the candlestick also in the tabernacle of the testimony, over against the table on the south side,

  10. Placing the lamps in order, according to the precept of the Lord.

  11. Thou shalt take also fine flour, and shalt bake twelve loaves thereof, two tenths shall be in every loaf.

  12. And thou shalt set them six and six, one against another, upon the most clean table before the Lord.

  13. And thou shalt put upon them the clearest frankincense, that the bread may be for a memorial of the oblation of the Lord.

  14. Every sabbath they shall be changed before the Lord: being received of the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.

  15. And they shall be Aaron's and his sons', that they may eat them in the holy place: because it is most holy of the sacrifices of the Lord by a perpetual right.

  16. They shall wrap up also the table of proposition in a cloth of violet, and shall put with it the censers and little mortars, the cups and bowls to pour out the libations: the loaves shall be always on it:

  17. And the priest answered David, saying: I have no common bread at hand, but only holy bread, if the young men be clean, especially from women?

  18. And David answered the priest, and said to him: Truly, as to what concerneth women, we have refrained ourselves from yesterday and the day before, when we came out, and the vessels of the young men were holy. Now this way is defiled, but it shall also be sanctified this day in the vessels.

  19. The priest therefore gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there, but only the loaves of proposition, which had been taken away from before the face of the Lord, that hot loaves might be set up.

  20. And some of the sons of Caath their brethren, were over the loaves of proposition, to prepare always new for every sabbath.

  21. And the priests have the charge of the loaves of proposition, and of the sacrifice of fine flour, and of the unleavened cakes, and of the fryingpan, and of the roasting, and of every weight and measure.

  22. So do with me that I may build a house to the name of the Lord my God, to dedicate it to burn incense before him, and to perfume with aromatical spices, and for the continual setting forth of bread, and for the holocausts, morning and evening, and on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and the solemnities of the Lord our God for ever, which are commanded for Israel.

  23. And we made ordinances for ourselves, to give the third part of a sicle every year for the work of the house of our God,

  24. For the loaves of proposition, and for the continual sacrifice, and for a continual holocaust on the sabbaths, on the new moons, on the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offering: that atonement might be made for Israel, and for every use of the house of our God.

  25. But he said to them: Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and they that were with him: