The Table

23 “You are to construct a table(A) of acacia wood, thirty-six inches long, eighteen inches wide, and twenty-seven inches high.[a] 24 Overlay it with pure gold and make a gold molding all around it. 25 Make a three-inch[b] frame all around it and make a gold molding for it all around its frame. 26 Make four gold rings for it, and attach the rings to the four corners at its four legs. 27 The rings should be next to the frame as holders for the poles to carry the table. 28 Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, and the table can be carried by them. 29 You are also to make its plates(B) and cups, as well as its pitchers and bowls for pouring drink offerings. Make them out of pure gold. 30 Put the Bread of the Presence(C) on the table before me at all times.

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Footnotes

  1. 25:23 Lit two cubits its length, one cubit its width, and one and a half cubits its height
  2. 25:25 Lit Make it a handbreadth

Instructions for Making a Table and a Lampstand

23 “And you will make a table of acacia wood, two cubits its length and a cubit its width and a cubit and a half its height. 24 And you will overlay it with pure gold, and you will make for it a gold molding all around. 25 And you will make for it a handbreadth rim all around, and you will make a gold molding for its rim all around. 26 And you will make four gold rings for it, and you will put the rings on the four corners where its four legs[a] are. 27 The rings will be near the rim as holders[b] for poles to carry the table. 28 And you will make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, and the table will be carried with them. 29 And you will make its plates and its ladles[c] and its pitchers and its bowls with which libations will be poured; of pure gold you will make them. 30 And you will put on the table the bread of presence to be before me continually.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 25:26 Literally “feet”
  2. Exodus 25:27 Literally “houses”
  3. Exodus 25:29 Or “bowls”