⁴ how he entered the house of God and ate ^(A)the showbread which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, ^(B)but only for the priests?

The Bread of the Tabernacle

⁵ “And you shall take fine flour and bake twelve ^(A)cakes with it. Two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake. ⁶ You shall set them in two rows, six in a row, ^(B)on the pure gold table before the Lord. ⁷ And you shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be on the bread for a ^(C)memorial, an offering made by fire to the Lord. ^8 (D)Every Sabbath he shall set it in order before the Lord continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant. ⁹ And ^(E)it shall be for Aaron and his sons, ^(F)and they shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy to him from the offerings of the Lord made by fire, by a perpetual statute.”

³⁰ And you shall set the ^(A)showbread on the table before Me always.

³¹ And Moses said to Aaron and his sons, ^(A)“Boil the flesh at the door of the tabernacle of meeting, and eat it there with the bread that is in the basket of consecration offerings, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons shall eat it.’

³² Then Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the ^(A)bread that is in the basket, by the door of the tabernacle of meeting. ^33 (B)They shall eat those things with which the atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them; ^(C)but an outsider shall not eat them, because they are holy.