Exodus 25:27

27 Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staffs to bear the table.

Exodus 25:27 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 25:27

Over against the border
Or "under" it, as the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions. Jarchi says the rings were fixed to the feet over against the top of the border:

shall the rings be for placing of the staves to bear the table;
into these rings staves were to be put, to carry the table from place to place, when it was necessary, as while they were in the wilderness, and before the tabernacle had a fixed settled place for it; for wherever the tabernacle was carried, the ark and the table were also: where the church of Christ is, there he is, and there are the word and ordinances; and which are sometimes moved from place to place, as from the land of Judea into the Gentile world, from the eastern part of the world to the more northern; and that by the ministers of the word, who bear the name, and carry the Gospel of Christ into the several parts of the world, as this table was bore by the Levites, ( Numbers 4:7 Numbers 4:8 Numbers 4:15 ) .

Exodus 25:27 In-Context

25 And thou shalt make to it a border of an hand-breadth around it, and thou shalt make a golden crown to its border around it.
26 And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that [are] on its four feet.
27 Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staffs to bear the table.
28 And thou shalt make the staffs [of] shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.
29 And thou shalt make its dishes, and its spoons, and its covers, and its bowls, to cover it with: [of] pure gold shalt thou make them.
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