showbread

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showbread - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Showbread \Show"bread`\, n. (Jewish Antiq.)
     Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; -- the term
     used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew
     and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest
     of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in the
     sanctuary. They were made of fine flour unleavened, and were
     changed every Sabbath. The loaves, twelve in number,
     represented the twelve tribes of Israel. They were to be
     eaten by the priests only, and in the Holy Place. [Written
     also shewbread.] --Mark ii. 26.
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