Exodus 25:30 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Heb. Bread of faces, or of the presence, so called, because it was constantly placed in God's presence. This bread was divided into twelve loaves, one for every tribe; and they were in their name presented to God in the nature of an offering, as the frankincense shows, as a public acknowledgment that they received all their bread or food, both corporal and spiritual, from God's hand, and were to use it as in God's presence