Exodus 25:23-29

The Table for Bread

23 1"You shall make a table of acacia wood. Two cubits shall be its length, a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height.
24 You shall overlay it with 2pure gold and make a molding of gold around it.
25 And you shall make a rim around it a handbreadth[a] wide, and a molding of gold around the rim.
26 And you shall make for it four rings of gold, and fasten the rings to the four corners at its four legs.
27 Close to the frame the rings shall lie, as 3holders for the poles to carry the table.
28 You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, and the table shall be carried with these.
29 And you shall make its plates and 4dishes for incense, and its flagons and bowls with which to pour drink offerings; you shall make them of pure gold.

Cross References 4

  • 1. For ver. 23-29, see Exodus 37:10-16; [1 Kings 7:48; 2 Chronicles 4:8; Hebrews 9:2]
  • 2. ver. 11
  • 3. Exodus 26:29; Exodus 30:4; Exodus 36:34; Exodus 37:14, 27; Exodus 38:5
  • 4. Exodus 37:16; Numbers 4:7

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. A handbreadth was about 3 inches or 7.5 centimeters
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