聖書の供えのパンとは何か？「臨在のパン」とその机

The showbread was twelve loaves of bread set out every week on a gold-covered table inside the tabernacle, and later the temple, in the presence of God. Modern translations call it the bread of the Presence. Each Sabbath the priests set out fresh loaves and ate the old ones in a holy place (Leviticus 24:8–9). Why is it called showbread? The Hebrew name is lechem panim, from lechem, “bread,” and panim, “face, presence”: bread set out “before the Lord” (Leviticus…