And some members of the clan of Kohath were in charge of preparing the bread to be set on the table each Sabbath day.
Parallel translations
- WEB Some of their brothers, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the show bread, to prepare it every Sabbath.
- KJV And other of their brethren, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the shewbread, to prepare it every sabbath.
- BSB Some of their Kohathite brothers were responsible for preparing the rows of the showbread every Sabbath.
- NKJV And some of their brethren of the sons of the Kohathites were in charge of preparing the showbread for every Sabbath.
- NASB Some of their relatives of the sons of the Kohathites were in charge of the showbread to prepare it every Sabbath.
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Quick answer
Notes Kohathite Levites prepared the showbread each Sabbath. It records the regular provision of the bread of the Presence.
Overview
Certain Kohathites were responsible for the showbread, preparing it every Sabbath as the law required. The bread of the Presence symbolized God's fellowship with the twelve tribes. The Chronicler's mention of this faithful weekly duty points to the sustained communion God offers His people, ultimately fulfilled in Christ, the true bread of life.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 3
- Lev 24:5–8“You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenths of an ephah shall be in one cake.
- Exod 25:30You shall set bread of the presence on the table before me always.
- 1 Chr 6:33–48These are those who served, and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel,
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