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Matthew 12:4

WEB

4how he entered into God’s house and ate the show bread, which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests?

KJV

4How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?

BSB

4He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread,[+] which was not lawful for them to eat, but only for the priests.

FBV

4He went into the house of God, and he and his men ate the sacred bread that they weren't allowed to eat since it's only for the priests.

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References

1 Samuel 21:3
3Now therefore what is under your hand? Please give me five loaves of bread in my hand, or whatever is available.”

Extra References

Leviticus 24:5-9

5“You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenths of an ephah[+] shall be in one cake. 6You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold table before the LORD. 7You shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire to the LORD. 8Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before the LORD continually. It is an everlasting covenant on the behalf of the children of Israel. 9It shall be for Aaron and his sons. They shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy to him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.”

Exodus 25:30

30You shall set bread of the presence on the table before me always.

Leviticus 8:31

31Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, “Boil the meat at the door of the Tent of Meeting, and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of consecration, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons shall eat it.’

Exodus 29:32-33

32Aaron and his sons shall eat the meat of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, at the door of the Tent of Meeting. 33They shall eat those things with which atonement was made, to consecrate and sanctify them; but a stranger shall not eat of it, because they are holy.