Exodus 25:23-30·~1 min

The Table of Showbread

The table's size, gold covering, rim, rings, and carrying poles are carefully prescribed. Like the ark, it is made both beautiful and portable.

Y²³ou are also to make a table of acacia wood two cubits long, a cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high. ²⁴Overlay it with pure gold and make a gold molding around it. ²⁵And make a rim around it a handbreadth wide and put a gold molding on the rim. ²⁶Make four gold rings for the table and fasten them to the four corners at its four legs. ²⁷The rings are to be close to the rim, to serve as holders for the poles used to carry the table. ²⁸Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that the table may be carried with them.

Its plates, dishes, pitchers, and bowls are to be made of pure gold. The Bread of the Presence is then placed on the table continually before the LORD.

²⁹You are also to make the plates and dishes, as well as the pitchers and bowls for pouring drink offerings. Make them out of pure gold. ³⁰And place the Bread of the Presence on the table before Me at all times.

Section summaryThe table is made of acacia wood overlaid with gold, furnished with rings, poles, and vessels of pure gold. Upon it the Bread of the Presence is to remain before the LORD at all times.

Role in the chapterThis section adds another furnishing to the sanctuary's ordered life. It moves from structure and portability to the continual setting of bread before God's presence.