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Exodus 25:30
30Put the Bread of the Presence on the table before me at all times.
Exodus 25:30 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway.
- New International Version (NIV)Put the bread of the Presence on this table to be before me at all times.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And you shall set the bread of the Presence on the table before me regularly.
- New King James Version (NKJV)And you shall set the showbread on the table before Me always.
Context of Exodus 25:30
28Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, and the table can be carried by them. 29You are also to make its plates and cups, as well as its pitchers and bowls for pouring drink offerings. Make them out of pure gold. Put the Bread of the Presence on the table before me at all times. 31“You are to make a lampstand out of pure, hammered gold. It is to be made of one piece: its base and shaft, its ornamental cups, and its buds and petals. 32Six branches are to extend from its sides, three branches of the lampstand from one side and three branches of the lampstand from the other side.
Read all of Exodus 25Exodus 25:30 word by word
וְנָתַתָּ֧ עַֽל־הַשֻּׁלְחָ֛ן לֶ֥חֶם פָּנִ֖ים לְפָנַ֥י תָּמִֽיד׃ פRead the interlinear
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Cross-references for Exodus 25:30
- Exodus 35:13the table with its poles, all its utensils, and the Bread of the Presence;
- Exodus 39:36the table, all its utensils, and the Bread of the Presence;
- Leviticus 24:5“Take fine flour and bake it into twelve loaves; each loaf is to be made with four quarts.
- Numbers 4:7“They are to spread a blue cloth over the table of the Presence and place the plates and cups on it, as well as the bowls and pitchers for the drink offering. The regular bread offering is to be on it.
- 1 Samuel 21:6So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, for there was no bread there except the Bread of the Presence that had been removed from the presence of the Lord. When the bread was removed, it had been replaced with warm bread.
- 1 Chronicles 9:32Some of the Kohathites’ relatives were responsible for preparing the rows of the Bread of the Presence every Sabbath.
- 1 Chronicles 23:29as well as the rows of the Bread of the Presence, the fine flour for the grain offering, the wafers of unleavened bread, the baking, the mixing, and all measurements of volume and length.
- 2 Chronicles 13:11They offer a burnt offering and fragrant incense to the Lord every morning and every evening, and they set the rows of the Bread of the Presence on the ceremonially clean table. They light the lamps of the gold lampstand every evening. We are carrying out the requirements of the Lord our God, while you have abandoned him.
- Malachi 1:7“By presenting defiled food on my altar.” “How have we defiled you?” you ask. When you say, “The Lord’s table is contemptible.”
- Matthew 12:4how he entered the house of God, and they ate the bread of the Presence — which is not lawful for him or for those with him to eat, but only for the priests?
Commentaries on Exodus 25:30
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 30Shew-bread - פנים לחם lechem panim literally, bread of faces; so called, either because they were placed before the presence or face of God in the sanctuary, or because they were made square, as the Jews will have it. It is probable that they were in the form of cubes or hexaedrons, each side presenting the same appearance; and hence the Jews might suppose they were called the bread or loaves of faces: but the Hebrew text seems to intimate that they were…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 23-30Verses 23-30 (Compare Exodus 37:10-16.) The table and the candlestick figured on the Arch of Titus at Rome are those of the Maccabaean times, but made as nearly as possible after the ancient models reproduced under the direction of Solomon and Zerubbabel. The details and size of the figure, and the description of Josephus, appear to agree very nearly with the directions here given to Moses, and to illustrate them in several particulars. Josephus says that…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 23-30Verses 23-30 A table was to be made of wood, overlaid with gold, to stand in the outer tabernacle, to be always furnished with the shew-bread. This table, with the articles on it, and its use, seems to typify the communion which the Lord holds with his redeemed people in his ordinances, the provisions of his house, the feasts they are favoured with. Also the food for their souls, which they always find when they hunger after it; and the delight he takes…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 23-30The table of acacia wood was on the north side of the main room of the tabernacle (26:35). It reminded the people that God would provide for them. Most importantly, God's presence is what sustained them (25:30).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3030. showbread--literally, presence bread, so called because it was constantly exhibited before the Lord, or because the bread of His presence, like the angel of His presence, pointed symbolically to Christ. It consisted of twelve unleavened loaves, said traditionally to have been laid in piles of six each. This bread was designed to be a symbol of the full and never-failing provision which is made in the Church for the spiritual sustenance and refreshment…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Exodus 25
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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