Exodus 26:35

35 You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand across from the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south; and you shall put the table on the north side.

Exodus 26:35 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 26:35

And thou shalt set the table without the vail
The table of shewbread, of which see ( Exodus 25:23-30 ) , this was not to be within the vail, but without it, in the holy place: and the candlestick opposite the table, of which see ( Exodus 25:31 ) signifying, that in the church of God, in the present state of things, which the holy place was an emblem of, there are both food and light: the candlestick was placed

on the side of the tabernacle, toward the south;
according to Jarchi, two cubits and a half from the side of it:

and thou shalt put the table on the north side;
of the tabernacle, directly opposite the candlestick, two cubits and a half from the south side, as the same writer says;

Exodus 26:35 In-Context

33 And you shall hang the veil from the clasps. Then you shall bring the ark of the Testimony in there, behind the veil. The veil shall be a divider for you between the holy place and the Most Holy.

34 You shall put the mercy seat upon the ark of the Testimony in the Most Holy.

35 You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand across from the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south; and you shall put the table on the north side.

36 "You shall make a screen for the door of the tabernacle, woven of blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine woven linen, made by a weaver.

37 And you shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, and you shall cast five sockets of bronze for them.