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| | Mystery of Mysteries -- What Is the Showbread? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | This showbread was, literally, "bread of the Presence." It consisted of twelve loaves of wheat bread, corresponding to the twelve tribes of Israel. |
 | | Literally, the "showbread" is lechem ha'panim, that is, "bread of the face" -- or, "bread of the Presence (of God)." It is also called the "continual bread" (Num.4:7), "continual shewbread" (I Chron.2:4), or "bread of the row" [or "arrangement"] (I Chron.9:32, translated "shewbread" in the KJV). |
 | | As the priests on the south side picked up the old showbread and incense bowls, the priests on the north side replaced those with the new showbread and dishes of incense, with perfect timing, at the very same moment, so that showbread was always upon the table, continually. |
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