Bread of the Presence

23 (A)You shall also make a table of acacia wood, [a]two cubits [b]long and one cubit [c]wide, and one and a half cubits [d]high. 24 You shall overlay it with pure gold and make a gold (B)border around it. 25 And you shall make for it a rim of a [e]hand width around it; and you shall make a gold border for the rim around it. 26 You shall also make four gold rings for it and put rings on the four corners which are on its four legs. 27 The rings shall be close to the rim, as holders for the poles to carry the table. 28 And you shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that with them the table may be carried. 29 You shall also make its (C)dishes, its pans, its jars, and its libation bowls with which to pour drink offerings; you shall make them of pure gold. 30 And you shall set (D)the bread of the [f]Presence on the table before Me continually.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 25:23 About 3 ft. long, 1.5 ft. wide, 2.25 ft. high or 90 cm, 45 cm, and 68 cm
  2. Exodus 25:23 Lit its length
  3. Exodus 25:23 Lit its width
  4. Exodus 25:23 Lit its height
  5. Exodus 25:25 About 3 in. or 7.5 cm
  6. Exodus 25:30 Lit Face

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