“You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenth parts of an ephah shall be in one cake. You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold table before Yahweh. You shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire to Yahweh. Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before Yahweh continually. It is on the behalf of the children of Israel an everlasting […]
⛓ Read Leviticus 24 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
This is the legal basis for Jesus' phrase 'which is not lawful to eat except for the priests alone' — Leviticus prescribes the showbread and reserves it for Aaron and his sons. Luke's halakhic argument presupposes this statute, giving high Coherence with the David citation.
High confidenceThe show bread (Bread of the Presence) and its rule that only the priests may eat it (v.26) come from Lev 24:5-9. Mark presupposes this legislation to make the David precedent meaningful: human need overrides cultic restriction. High coherence and verbal contact on "show bread" and "lawful... except for the priests."
High confidenceThe legislation behind the showbread: twelve loaves set before the LORD, to be eaten only by Aaron and his sons 'in a holy place.' Jesus' phrase 'not lawful... but only for the priests' depends directly on this statute, which makes David's act a transgression that incurs no condemnation.
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