The dishes — Upon which the shew — bread was put. Continual bread — So called because it was continually to be there, even in the wilderness; where though they had only manna for themselves, yet they reserved corn for the weekly making of these loaves, which they might with no great difficulty procure from some of the people bordering upon the wilderness.
Related Commentaries of Numbers 4:7
Numbers 4:7
7 And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and coversa to cover withal: and the continual bread shall be thereon: