Exodus 25 · Verse 30

Exodus 25:30

And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway.
Exodus 25:30, King James Version

Exodus 25:30 in other translations

BSBAnd place the Bread of the Presence on the table before Me at all times.
WEBYou shall set bread of the presence on the table before me always.
ASVAnd thou shalt set upon the table showbread before me alway.
YLTand thou hast put on the table bread of the presence before Me continually.
DARBYAnd thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me continually.
BBEAnd on the table at all times you are to keep my holy bread.
WebsterAnd thou shalt set upon the table show-bread before me always.

What does Exodus 25:30 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
30. showbread--literally, presence bread, so called because it was constantly exhibited before the Lord, or because the bread of His presence, like the angel of His presence, pointed symbolically to Christ. It consisted of twelve unleavened loaves, said traditionally to have been laid in piles of six each. This bread was designed to be a symbol of the full and never-failing provision which is made in the Church for the spiritual sustenance and refreshment of God's people.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 30 Shew-bread - לחם פנים lechem panim literally, bread of faces; so called, either because they were placed before the presence or face of God in the sanctuary, or because they were made square, as the Jews will have it. It is probable that they were in the form of cubes or hexaedrons, each side presenting the same appearance; and hence the Jews might suppose they were called the bread or loaves of faces: but the Hebrew text seems to intimate that they were called the bread of faces, פנים panim, because, as the Lord says, they were set לפני lephanai, before my Face. These loaves or cakes were twelve, representing, as is generally supposed, the twelve tribes of Israel. They were in two rows of six each. On the top of each row there was a golden dish with frankincense, which was burned before the Lord, as a memorial, at the end of the week, when the old loaves were removed and replaced by new ones, the priests taking the former for their domestic use. It is more difficult to ascertain the use of these, or what they represented, than almost any other emblem in the whole Jewish economy. Many have conjectured their meaning, and I feel no disposition to increase their number by any addition of my own. The note on Exo 25:23, from Dr. Cudworth, appears to me more rational than any thing else I have met with. The tabernacle was God's house, and in it he had his table, his bread, his wine, candlestick, etc., to show them that he had taken up his dwelling among them. See Clarke's note on Exo 25:23.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 25:23-30

A table was to be made of wood, overlaid with gold, to stand in the outer tabernacle, to be always furnished with the shew-bread. This table, with the articles on it, and its use, seems to typify the communion which the Lord holds with his redeemed people in his ordinances, the provisions of his house, the feasts they are favoured with. Also the food for their souls, which they always find when they hunger after it…

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Exodus 25:30 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְנָתַתָּ֧ve.na.ta.Taand you will putH5414
עַֽל\־'al-onH5921
הַשֻּׁלְחָ֛ןha.shul.Chanthe tableH7979
לֶ֥חֶםLe.chembread ofH3899
פָּנִ֖יםpa.NimpresenceH6440
לְפָנַ֥יle.fa.Nai<to> before meH6440
תָּמִֽיד\׃\ \פta.MidcontinuallyH8548

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Cross references for Exodus 25:30

  • Matthew 12:4

    How 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?

  • Leviticus 24:5-9

    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. …

  • Exodus 39:36

    The table, and all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread,

  • 1 Samuel 21:6

    So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the Lord, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.

  • 2 Chronicles 13:11

    And they burn unto the Lord every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also set they in order upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the Lord our God; but ye have forsaken him.

  • Malachi 1:7

    Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the Lord is contemptible.

  • 1 Chronicles 9:32

    And other of their brethren, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the shewbread, to prepare it every sabbath.

  • Exodus 35:13

    The table, and his staves, and all his vessels, and the shewbread,

  • 1 Chronicles 23:29

    Both for the shewbread, and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all manner of measure and size;

  • Numbers 4:7

    And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and covers to cover withal: and the continual bread shall be thereon:

  • Malachi 1:12

    But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the Lord is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
35:13; 39:36; Le 24:5,6; Nu 4:7; 1Sa 21:6; 1Ch 9:32; 23:29
2Ch 13:11; Mal 1:7,12; Mt 12:4

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Context

  • Exodus 25:29

    And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: of pure gold shalt thou make them.

  • Exodus 25:30

    And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway.

  • Exodus 25:31

    And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same.

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Exodus 25:30 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y pondrás sobre la mesa el pan de la proposición delante de mí continuamente.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et tu mettras sur la table le pain de proposition, devant moi, continuellement.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und auf den Tisch sollst du Schaubrote legen vor meinem Angesicht beständig.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Et pones super mensam panes propositionis in conspectu meo semper.