showbread
Britishnoun
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Three times in the year all the courses shared alike in the offerings of the great feasts, and in the distribution of the showbread.
From Hebrew Literature by Epiphanius Wilson
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 Theodore Graebner
The temples agreed even in the details of their furniture: the two altars of the Babylonian sanctuary are found again in the temple of Jerusalem; so also the mercy seat and the table of showbread.
From The Christian View of the Old Testament by Frederick Carl Eiselen
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 Albert G. Mackey
To the right of the Altar was the Menorah, the seven-light candlestick, and to the left the table of showbread.
From Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile) by Isaac Landman
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