The Temple Institute: In-Depth Temple Study: The Showbread Table
 
The Showbread Table (continued)

The sages also relate that after eating only a small portion of the bread (the size of an olive) "the priest would eat and become satiated" as if he had eaten an entire meal. Around the top of the table was a garland of gold - representing the "crown of royalty." 

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