<Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> Showbread (Hebrew: לחם הפנים lechem haPānīm ‎ ‎, literally: "Bread of the Presence"), in the King James Version: shewbread, in a biblical or Jewish context, refers to the cakes or loaves of bread which were always present on a specially dedicated two crowned table, in the Temple in Jerusalem as an offering to HaShem . An alternative, and more appropriate, translation would be presence bread, since the Bible requires that the bread be constantly in the presence of God (Exodus 25: 30). It is also mentioned in (Matthew 12: 4) (τοὺς ἄρτους τῆς προθέσεως). </P> <P> Within the Torah, the shewbread is mentioned exclusively by the Priestly Code and Holiness Code, but certain sections of the Bible, including the Book of Chronicles, Books of Samuel, and Book of Kings, also describe aspects of them . In the Holiness Code, the shewbread is described as twelve cakes / loaves baked from fine flour, arranged in two rows / piles on a table standing before God; each loaf / cake was to contain two Omers of flour (Leviticus 24: 5 - 6) (approx 4.9 pounds). The Biblical regulations specify that cups of frankincense were to be placed upon the rows of cakes, and the Septuagint, but not the masoretic text, states that salt was mixed with the frankincense; the frankincense, which the Septuagint refers to as an anamnesis, (a hapax legomenon), constituted a memorial (azkarah), having been offered upon the altar to God (Leviticus 24: 7 - 9). </P>

What is the meaning of showbread in the bible