¹³ the table^(A) with its poles and all its articles and the bread of the Presence;

³⁶ the table^(A) with all its articles and the bread of the Presence;^(B)

⁴ Bring in the table^(A) and set out what belongs on it.^(B) Then bring in the lampstand^(C) and set up its lamps.

²³ and set out the bread^(A) on it before the Lord, as the Lord commanded^(B) him.

⁵ “Take the finest flour and bake twelve loaves of bread,^(A) using two-tenths of an ephah^[a](B) for each loaf. ⁶ Arrange them in two stacks, six in each stack, on the table of pure gold^(C) before the Lord. ⁷ By each stack put some pure incense^(D) as a memorial^[b] portion^(E) to represent the bread and to be a food offering presented to the Lord. ⁸ This bread is to be set out before the Lord regularly,^(F) Sabbath after Sabbath,^(G) on behalf of the Israelites, as a lasting covenant. ⁹ It belongs to Aaron and his sons,^(H) who are to eat it in the sanctuary area,^(I) because it is a most holy^(J) part of their perpetual share of the food offerings presented to the Lord.”

⁷ “Over the table of the Presence^(A) they are to spread a blue cloth and put on it the plates, dishes and bowls, and the jars for drink offerings;^(B) the bread that is continually there^(C) is to remain on it.

⁴ But the priest answered David, “I don’t have any ordinary bread^(A) on hand; however, there is some consecrated^(B) bread here—provided the men have kept^(C) themselves from women.”

⁵ David replied, “Indeed women have been kept from us, as usual^(D) whenever^[a] I set out. The men’s bodies are holy^(E) even on missions that are not holy. How much more so today!” ⁶ So the priest gave him the consecrated bread,^(F) since there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence that had been removed from before the Lord and replaced by hot bread on the day it was taken away.

⁴⁸ Solomon also made all^(A) the furnishings that were in the Lord’s temple:

²⁹ They were in charge of the bread set out on the table,^(A) the special flour for the grain offerings,^(B) the thin loaves made without yeast, the baking and the mixing, and all measurements of quantity and size.^(C)