Exodus 25:28

28 The bars also themselves thou shalt make of setim wood, and shalt overlay them with gold, to bear up the table.

Exodus 25:28 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 25:28

And thou shall make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay
them with gold
In like manner as the staves for the ark, and which were made of the same wood:

that the table may be borne with them;
when moved from one place to another; these staves did not remain in the rings, as the staves for the ark did; but, as Josephus says ^F23, were taken out, because they otherwise would have been in the way of the priests, who came every week to it, to set the shewbread on; and these were put in only when they carried it from place to place, as appears from ( Numbers 4:8 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F23 Antiqu. l. 3. c. 6. sect. 6.

Exodus 25:28 In-Context

26 Thou shalt prepare also four golden rings, and shalt put them in the four corners of the same table, over each foot.

27 Under the crown shall the golden rings be, that the bars may be put through them, and the table may be carried.

28 The bars also themselves thou shalt make of setim wood, and shalt overlay them with gold, to bear up the table.

29 Thou shalt prepare also dishes, and bowls, censers, and cups, wherein the libations are to be offered, of the purest gold.

30 And thou shalt set upon the table loaves of proposition in my sight always.