Put the bread of the Presence on this table to be before me at all times. The bread of the Presence — lechem panim, the bread of the face or the bread of presence — is to be before God at all times. The continuous, perpetual presence of the bread before God is one of the most tender images in the tabernacle: Israel is always at table with God, always in the intimacy of a meal in His presence. Leviticus 24:5–9 specifies twelve loaves on the Sabbath, replaced with fresh loaves each week. John 6:35 says Jesus is the bread of life: I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry. The bread that is always before the face of God in the tabernacle is the type of the one who is always the bread of life.

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