“You shall take fine flour and bake twelve loaves from it; two tenths of an ephah shall be in each loaf.
And you shall set the bread of the Presence on the table before me regularly.
and arranged the bread on it before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord came, saying, “Israel shall be your name,”
And the priest answered David, “I have no common bread on hand, but there is holy bread—if the young men have kept themselves from women.” And David answered the priest, “Truly women have been kept from us as always when I go on an expedition. The vessels of the young men are holy even when it is an ordinary journey. How much more today will their vessels be holy?”
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings.
to which our twelve tribes hope to attain, as they earnestly worship night and day. And for this hope I am accused by Jews, O king!
how he entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him to eat nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests?
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