Matthew 12:4
He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread, which was not lawful for them to eat, but only for the priests.
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- Leviticus 24:5–7 You are also to take fine flour and bake twelve loaves, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf, and set them in two rows — six per row — on the table of pure gold before the LORD. And you are to place pure frankincense near each row, so that it may serve as a memorial portion for the bread, a food offering to the LORD.
- Exodus 25:30 And place the Bread of the Presence on the table before Me at all times.
- Exodus 29:32–33 At the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, Aaron and his sons are to eat the meat of the ram and the bread that is in the basket. They must eat those things by which atonement was made for their ordination and consecration. But no outsider may eat them, because these things are sacred.