Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staves to bear the table.
The table in the holy place, spread always with twelve loaves, one for each tribe, showed God keeping a royal house and receiving His people as guests; the bread proclaimed their dependence on Providence and their covenant communion with Him, for God and Israel ate together from the same corn.
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Commenting on Exodus 25:23-30
And thou shall make the dishes thereof,.... On which the shewbread loaves were set. Jarchi says they were of the form of the bread, and that there were two sorts, one of gold, and one of iron; in the iron one the bread was baked, and when they took it out of the oven, they put it into the golden one until the morrow of...
The hand-breadth border encasing the four sides of the table held its feet; a golden wreath crowned the border beneath the slab, and another crowned the slab itself, each in its proper place, while four rings at the corners fastened the poles for carrying, as with the ark.
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Commenting on Exodus 25:23-28