Leviticus 24:5 Cross References - Thomson

⁵ And you shall take fine flour, and make it into twelve loaves, every loaf shall consist of two tenths;

³⁰ And on this table thou shalt lay the loaves which are to be in my presence before me continually.

²³ and set thereon the presence loaves before the Lord as the Lord commanded Moses.

⁴ And the priest in reply said to David, I have no common bread at hand. Because there is none but the holy bread; if thy servants have but kept themselves from women they may eat it. ⁵ And David in answer to the priest, said to him, Of a truth we have kept ourselves from women these three days. When I set out on the journey, all the servants were purified [though the journey was on secular affairs] because they were to be holy this day, on account of my provision for it.

³¹ Elias took twelve stones according to the number of the tribes of Israel, to whom the Lord had spoken, saying, Thy name shall be Israel;

⁴ How he went to the house of God and ate the presence loaves, which it was not lawful for him or his company to eat, but only for the priests?

⁷ and which our twelve tribes, by their continual services night and day, hope to obtain: for which hope, O king Agrippa, I am accused by the Jews.

¹ James, "a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes who are dispersed abroad, Greeting.