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Bible Verses About Shewbread

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  1. “You shall make a table of acacia wood. Two cubits shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth, and one and a half cubits its height.

  2. You shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it.

  3. You shall make a rim of a hand breadth around it. You shall make a golden molding on its rim around it.

  4. You shall make four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that are on its four feet.

  5. the rings shall be close to the rim, for places for the poles to carry the table.

  6. You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them.

  7. You shall make its dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls to pour out offerings with. You shall make them of pure gold.

  8. You shall set bread of the presence on the table before me always.

  9. He put the table in the Tent of Meeting, on the side of the tabernacle northward, outside of the veil.

  10. He set the bread in order on it before the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.

  11. “You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenth parts of an efah shall be in one cake.

  12. You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold table before the LORD.

  13. You shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire to the LORD.

  14. Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before the LORD continually. It is on the behalf of the children of Israel an everlasting covenant.

  15. It shall be for Aaron and his sons; and they shall eat it in a holy place: for it is most holy to him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.”

  16. “On the table of show bread they shall spread a blue cloth, and put on it the dishes, the spoons, the bowls, and the cups with which to pour out; and the continual bread shall be on it.

  17. The priest answered David, and said, “There is no common bread under my hand, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.”

  18. David answered the priest, and said to him, “Truly, women have been kept from us about these three days. When I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was but a common journey. How much more then today shall their vessels be holy?”

  19. So the priest gave him holy bread; for there was no bread there but the show bread, that was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.

  20. Some of their brothers, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the show bread, to prepare it every Sabbath.

  21. for the show bread also, and for the fine flour for a meal offering, whether of unleavened wafers, or of that which is baked in the pan, or of that which is soaked, and for all kinds of measure and size;

  22. Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him incense of sweet spices, and for the continual show bread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the set feasts of the LORD our God. This is an ordinance forever to Israel.

  23. Also we made ordinances for ourselves, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;

  24. for the show bread, and for the continual meal offering, and for the continual burnt offering, for the Sabbaths, for the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.

  25. But he said to them, “Haven’t you read what David did, when he was hungry, and those who were with him;