The showbread was twelve loaves of unleavened bread arranged in two rows of six on a golden table in the Holy Place of the tabernacle (Exodus 25:30; Leviticus 24:5-9). Every Sabbath, fresh loaves replaced the old ones, and only the priests could eat the removed bread. The Hebrew lechem panim ("bread of the face/presence") signified Israel's continual fellowship and dependence on God — twelve loaves for twelve tribes, always in God's presence. When David and his men ate the showbread in their hunger (1 Samuel 21), Jesus later cited the incident to vindicate His disciples' Sabbath grain-plucking (Mark 2:25-28): "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath." Christ is Himself the true bread of presence (John 6:35) — the bread of the Face, now fully given to all who come to Him.