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3. Every sabbath it was renewed. When the loaves had stood there a week, the priests had them to eat with other holy things that were to be eaten in the holy place (Le 24:9), and new ones were provided at the public charge, and put in the room of them, Le 24:8.
The Jews say, "The hands of those priests that put on were mixed with theirs that took off, that the table might be never empty, but the bread might be before the Lord continually." God is never unprovided for the entertainment of those that visit him, as men often are, Lu 11:5. Every one of those cakes contained two tenth-deals, that is, two omers of fine flour; just so much manna every Israelite gathered on the sixth day for the sabbath, Ex 16:22. Hence some infer that this show-bread, which was set on the table on the sabbath, was intended as a memorial of the manna wherewith they were fed in the wilderness. Christ's ministers should provide new bread for his house every sabbath day, the production of their fresh studies in the scripture, that their proficiency may appear to all, 1Ti 4:1,5.
6 And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure
table before the Lord.
7 And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be
on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the Lord.
8 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 it shall be Aaron’s and his sons’; and they shall eat it in the
holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the Lord made by fire by a perpetual statute.