Show Bread
or SHEW BREAD, in Judaism, a word modeled on the Gerin Judaism, a word modeled on the Ger- SHOW BREAD, or SHEW BREAD, faces or face, perhaps meaning designed the Hebrew lehem hapanim bread of the faces or face, perhaps meaning designed for the presence of Jehovah. It is called Chron. ii. 4), or, more briefly, the "conalso the "continual shew bread" (II Chron. ii. 4), or, more briefly, the "conbread" (I Sam. xxi. 4-6). It was to be bread" (I Sam. xxi. 4-6). It was to be SHOWERMAN with gold (Exod. xxv. 23-29; I Kings vii. 48), and having a blue covering (Num. iv. 7). The shew bread consisted of 12 cakes baked with fine flour, twotenth deals being in each cake (Lev. xxiv. 5). It was to stand in the Holy Place, and, being sprinkled with frankincense, was there to be eaten each Sabbath by Aaron and his priestly descendants (Lev. xxiv. 9). When the old shew bread was removed, new and hot bread was to take its place (I Sam. xxi. 6). When David was in want of food, he ate the shew bread, though he was not a priest (I Sam. xxi. 3-6), and Jesus approved the deed (Matt. xii. 4; Mark ii. 26; Luke vi. 4).
The 12 cakes of shew bread were apparently one for each tribe; the deeper spiritual significance of the bread has been variously interpreted.