Exodus 26:35

35 You shall set the table outside the curtain, and the lampstand on the south side of the tabernacle opposite the table; 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 You shall hang the curtain under the clasps, and bring the ark of the covenant in there, within the curtain; and the curtain shall separate for you the holy place from the most holy.

34 You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the covenant in the most holy place.

35 You shall set the table outside the curtain, and the lampstand on the south side of the tabernacle opposite the table; and you shall put the table on the north side.

36 You shall make a screen for the entrance of the tent, of blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and of fine twisted linen, embroidered with needlework.

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