Aaron and his sons are to eat the meat of the ram and the bread that is in the basket at the entrance to the tent of meeting. The priests eat at the entrance to the tent of meeting — the threshold that separates the outside world from the sanctuary. The meal is not inside the sanctuary and not outside the camp but at the boundary: the priests eat at the point of transition between the ordinary and the holy. Their meals are liminal meals — eaten at the threshold between worlds. John 6:51 says the bread that Jesus gives is his flesh for the life of the world — the bread eaten at the tent of meeting's entrance is the type of the bread that Christ gives to those who approach him at the boundary of life and death.

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