showbread
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The temples agreed even in the details of their furniture: the two altars of the Babylonian sanctuary are found again in the temple of Jerusalem; so also the mercy seat and the table of showbread.
From The Christian View of the Old Testament by Eiselen, Frederick Carl
As they placed there the two cups of frankincense of the showbread.
From Hebrew Literature by Wilson, Epiphanius
And the showbread was in length ten hand-breadths, and in breadth five.
From Hebrew Literature by Wilson, Epiphanius
Three times in the year all the courses shared alike in the offerings of the great feasts, and in the distribution of the showbread.
From Hebrew Literature by Wilson, Epiphanius
Her altar was a high desk in a corner of the busy kitchen, and it was an altar of incense, of burnt-offerings, and of showbread.
From Buttered Side Down: Stories by Ferber, Edna
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