Exodus 25:25

25 Make a frame around it that is four inches wide and a gold molding around the frame.

Exodus 25:25 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 25:25

And thou shalt make unto it a border of art hand's breadth
round about
Jarchi says, their wise men are divided about this; some say it was above, round about the table; others say it was below, fixed from foot to foot at the four corners of the table, and the board of the table lay upon the border:

and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about;
this was not the same spoke of in the former verse, but another; that was above, and upon the table, this below and under it; or rather that was, as it may be better expressed, a lip, rim, or border, that went round within the table ^F21; and this crown, surrounded that on the edge of it.

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FOOTNOTES:

F21 So R. Sol. Urbin. Ohel Moed, fol. 61. 2.

Exodus 25:25 In-Context

23 Make an acacia-wood table, three feet long, eighteen inches wide, and twenty-seven inches high.

24 Cover it with pure gold and make a gold molding all around it.

25 Make a frame around it that is four inches wide and a gold molding around the frame.

26 Make four gold rings for the table. Fasten the rings to the four corners at its four legs.

27 The rings that house the poles used for carrying the table should be close to the frame.