The Showbread/Shewbread
And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake. And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD. And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD. Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant. And it shall be Aaron's and his sons'; and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.-Leviticus 24:5-9***Moses and his older brother Aaron were Israelites from the tribe of Levi. Moses and Aaron led their fellow Israelites, and those with them, away from Egyptian slavery, across the divinely parted Red Sea, and into the desert wilderness, according to the commands of the Lord God. In the desert wilderness of Sinai, in the region of Mount Sinai, the Israelites heard the voice of the Lord God proclaim the Ten Commandments to them, and the Lord God began giving Moses judgments for the Israelites. Moses wrote the words of the Lord God and read the words to the Israelites, and sprinkled the Israelites with blood. Afterwards, Moses, Aaron, Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu, and 70 Israelite elders went upon Mount Sinai, and Moses stayed upon Mount Sinai with the Lord God for 40 days and nights. Joshua was also upon Mount Sinai. The Lord God told Moses that the Israelites were to bring offerings, and were to make a tabernacle with its veil and courtyard, the ark of the covenant of the Lord, overlaid with pure gold and with a pure gold mercy seat, a pure gold lampstand with its pure gold tongs and fire pans, the altar of burnt offering, garments and items for the priests, the altar of incense overlaid with pure gold, a copper/bronze basin, holy anointing oil, holy incense, and a table and its articles overlaid with pure gold. Upon the table, every Sabbath day, the priest was to place 12 loaves of specifically baked and arranged bread, known as shewbread/showbread/hallowed bread/Bread of the Presence, and all of the old loaves were to be removed. During the 40th year of their journey to the Promised Land, 123-year-old Aaron died and was buried upon Mount Hor, and Moses went upon Mount Nebo. The Lord God showed Moses the Promised Land, and Moses died and was divinely buried. Joshua, Moses' successor, led the Israelites across the divinely parted Jordan River and onto the land that the Lord God promised to give to Abraham (Abram the Hebrew), and to Abraham's son Isaac, and to Isaac's youngest fraternal twin son Jacob (Israel), and their descendants. Over 1,300 years after 110-year-old Joshua died and was buried in his tribe's portion of the Promised Land, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the Israelite tribe of Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin. Approximately 30 years after Jesus was born to Joseph and Mary, Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River. Shortly thereafter, Jesus began to preach, teach and perform miracles among the Israelites. When Jesus was among a group of Pharisees, Jesus revealed a message that involved him, and the Sabbath day, the tabernacle, the showbread, the priests, and David, the Israelite from the tribe of Judah who became the 2nd king to reign over all of the Israelites in the Promised Land.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Leviticus 24:1-23, Numbers 4:1-49, 20:1-29, 27:12-23, Deuteronomy 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 23:1-24:33, Judges 1:1-2:23, 1 Samuel 1:1-3:21, 8:1-31:13, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings 1:1-2:12, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 6:1-81, 10:1-29:30, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26, Hebrews 9:1-28
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