"Make a table of acacia wood--two cubits long, a cubit wide and a
cubit and a half high. Overlay it with pure gold and make a gold molding
around it. Also make around it a rim a handbreadth wide and put a gold
molding on the rim. Make four gold rings for the table and fasten them to
the four corners, where the four legs are. The rings are to be close to
the rim to hold the poles used in carrying the table. Make the poles of
acacia wood, overlay them with gold and carry the table with them. And
make its plates and dishes of pure gold, as well as its pitchers and bowls
for the pouring out of offerings. Put the bread of the Presence on this
table to be before me at all times."
(Exodus 25:23-30 NIV)
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Table of Bread of Presence (Shewbread)
(Exodus 25:23-30; 26:35;
37:10-16; 40:22-23)
(shewbread: Heb. le-khem
pan-im’ , literally "bread of the face", used as bread ever before, in My
Presence).
- Made of acacia wood covered with gold.
- Table surface is 2 cubits long, 1 cubit wide, and 1-1/2 cubits
high.
- A crown was placed around the edge of the table, and another gold
crown 1 hand breath inside the outer crown.
- 4 rings of gold are to be affixed to the four legs at the corners
below the table surface, and acacia (overlaid with gold) staves were
made to carry the table.
- Platters, pitchers for libation (drink offering), sacrificial cups
and bowls made of pure gold.
- Bread was to always present before God.
- The table was to be on the north side of the Holy Place.
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