John Gill's Exposition on Leviticus 24:6

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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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”).

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