pure = purified or ceremonially cleansed. Compare Lev_24:4.
before the LORD: i.e. in the holy place. Hence called "the table of the presence" (Num_4:7), and the cakes called "the bread of the presence" (Exo_25:30; Exo_35:13; Exo_39:36). The word "shewbread" taken from the Vulgate, and Luther, does not correctly represent the Hebrew name. The use of this word quite hides the Hebrew expression "bread of ordering" (set in order), "the sets of bread", "the table set in order", in 1Ch_9:32; 1Ch_23:29. 2Ch_13:11. Neh_10:33; and the table in 2Ch_29:18. These Hebrew expressions are based on and derived from this verse.