Leviticus 24:5-9
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The Bread for the Tabernacle
5 “You shall take choice flour and bake twelve loaves of it; two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each loaf.(A) 6 You shall place them in two rows, six in a row, on the table of pure gold before the Lord.[a](B) 7 You shall put pure frankincense with each row, to be a token offering for the bread, as an offering by fire[b] to the Lord. 8 Every Sabbath day Aaron shall set them in order before the Lord regularly as a commitment of the Israelites, as a covenant forever.(C) 9 They shall be for Aaron and his descendants, who shall eat them in a holy place, for they are most holy portions for him from the offerings by fire[c] to the Lord, a perpetual due.”(D)
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Matthew 12:4
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4 How he entered the house of God, and they[a] ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him or his companions to eat, but only for the priests?(A)
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- 12.4 Other ancient authorities read he ate
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