showbread
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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When David and his companions had no food with which to still their hunger they ate the showbread which lay-people were forbidden to eat.
From Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Graebner, Theodore
Her altar was a high desk in a corner of the busy kitchen, and it was an altar of incense, of burnt-offerings, and of showbread.
From Buttered Side Down: Stories by Ferber, Edna
The table of showbread and the altar of incense glittered like burnished gold.
From The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by White, Ellen Gould Harmon
There is a representation of the table of showbread near by, and some other carvings yet remain, indicating something of the manner in which the monument was originally ornamented.
From A Trip Abroad by Janes, Don Carlos
Of it Moses was ordered to make the tabernacle, the ark of the covenant, the table for the showbread, and the rest of the sacred furniture.
From The Symbolism of Freemasonry by Mackey, Albert G.
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