What was the Bread of the Presence?

PROF. JENNIE EBELING: Lechem Hapanim: Bread in the Presence of YHWH (TheTorah.com).

Each week, twelve fresh loaves of bread were placed before YHWH in the Tabernacle and Temple. What do we know about the practice and its significance?

For more on the Phoenician Ahiram sarcophagus inscription, see here (with photo).

For more on the Aramaic Kuttamuwu (Kuttamuwa) inscription, see my notices on its discovery in 2008 here and here.

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