⁵ You shall take bran flour and bake it into twelve cakes,^(A) using two tenths of an ephah of flour for each cake. ⁶ These you shall place in two piles, six in each pile, on the pure gold table before the Lord. ⁷ With each pile put some pure frankincense, which shall serve as an oblation to the Lord, a token of the bread offering. ⁸ Regularly on each sabbath day the bread^(B) shall be set out before the Lord on behalf of the Israelites by an everlasting covenant. ⁹ It shall belong to Aaron and his sons, who must eat it in a sacred place, since it is most sacred,^(C) his as a perpetual due from the oblations to the Lord.

Punishment of Blasphemy.^[a]

³ He said to them,^[a] “Have you not read what David^(A) did when he and his companions were hungry, ⁴ how he went into the house of God and ate the bread of offering,^(B) which neither he nor his companions but only the priests could lawfully eat?

²⁶ How he went into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest and ate the bread of offering that only the priests could lawfully eat, and shared it with his companions?”^(A)

^3 (A)Jesus said to them in reply, “Have you not read what David did when he and those [who were] with him were hungry? ⁴ [How] he went into the house of God, took the bread of offering,^[a] which only the priests could lawfully eat, ate of it, and shared it with his companions.”^{(B) 5} Then he said to them, “The Son of Man is lord of the sabbath.”