Exodus 25:30 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

shewbread. Hebrew bread of faces; faces being put for presence by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, denoting the Divine presence in which the bread stood, and from Whom all supplies, material and spiritual, came. First occurance.

Me. Hebrew "My face. "So that here we have the Figure of speech Paronomasia, "panim lephanai" (App-6).

Exodus 25:30

30 And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway.