Leviticus 24:6

“And thou shalt set them in two rows, etc.] The twelve cakes: six on a row; not by the side of each other, but six upon one another: upon the pure table; the shewbread table, so called because overlaid with pure gold, and kept clean and bright, (<022524>Exodus 25:24); before the Lord; for this stood in the holy place, in the same place as the candlestick did, which has the same position, (<032404>Leviticus 24:4); of the mystical and typical sense of these cakes, (see Gill on “<022530>Exodus 25:30”).”

“The oil for the lamps of the tabernacle and the meal for the showbread were to be offerings from the Congregation, like the meal for the Pentecostal loaves, Leviticus 23:17. It appears that the responsibility of keeping up the lights rested on the high priest, but the actual service might be performed, on ordinary occasions, by the common priests. Compare margin reference. Leviticus 24:5 Each cake or loaf of unleavened bread Leviticus 2:11 was to contain about six pounds and a quarter (see Exodus 29:40 note) of fine flour. The material was the same, both in quality and in quantity, with that of each one of the wave-loaves of Pentecost Leviticus 23:17. In the service of the temple the…”

“Two rows - Not one above another, but one beside another, as the frankincense put upon each, Lev 24:7, shews. Leviticus 24:7”

“in two rows: Co1 14:40 pure: Exo 25:23, Exo 25:24, Exo 37:10-16, Exo 39:36, Exo 40:22, Exo 40:23; Kg1 7:48; Ch2 4:19, Ch2 13:11; Heb 9:2 Leviticus 24:7”