Exodus 25:23

The Table for the Bread of the Presence

25:23 ¹ “You are to make a table of acacia wood; its length is to be three feet, its width one foot six inches, and its height two feet three inches.

Exodus 26:12

26:12 Now the part that remains of the curtains of the tent – the half curtain that remains will hang over at the back of the tabernacle. ² 

Exodus 26:16

26:16 Each ³  frame is to be fifteen feet long, and each frame is to be two feet three inches wide,

Exodus 27:5

27:5 You are to put it under the ledge of the altar below, so that the network will come ⁴  halfway up the altar. ⁵ 

Exodus 36:21

36:21 The length of each ⁶  frame was fifteen feet, the width of each ⁷  frame was two and a quarter feet,

Exodus 37:10

The Making of the Table

37:10 He made the table of acacia wood; its length was three feet, its width one foot six inches, and its height two feet three inches.

Exodus 38:4

38:4 He made a grating for the altar, a network of bronze under its ledge, halfway up from the bottom.

[25:23]  ¹ sn The Table of the Bread of the Presence (Tyndale’s translation, “Shewbread,” was used in KJV and influenced ASV, NAB) was to be a standing acknowledgment that Yahweh was the giver of daily bread. It was called the “presence-bread” because it was set out in his presence. The theology of this is that God provides, and the practice of this is that the people must provide for constant thanks. So if the ark speaks of communion through atonement, the table speaks of dedicatory gratitude.

[26:12]  ² sn U. Cassuto (Exodus, 353) cites b. Shabbat 98b which says, “What did the tabernacle resemble? A woman walking on the street with her train trailing behind her.” In the expression “the half of the curtain that remains,” the verb agrees in gender with the genitive near it.

[26:16]  ³ tn Heb “the frame.”

[27:5]  ⁴ tn The verb is the verb “to be,” here the perfect tense with vav (ו) consecutive. It is “and it will be” or “that it may be,” or here “that it may come” halfway up.

[27:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “to the half of the altar.”

[36:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “the frame.”

[36:21]  ⁶ tn Heb “the one.”