1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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Numbers 4:7 They shall wrap up also the table of proposition in a cloth of violet, and shall put with it the censers and little mortars, the cups and bowls to pour out the libations: the loaves shall be always on it:

Loaves. Some imagine this precept was not observed in the desert, as the people fed on manna. But might not they procure some flour of the neighbouring nations? and do not the princes offer flour, See (Numbers 7.; Deuteronomy 12:7.) (Calmet)