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Exodus 25:28

Cut the long, straight pieces of acacia wood and cover them with gold. The table will be carried with these.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Gold;   Shewbread (Showbread);   Tabernacle;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Shewbread;   Types of Christ;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Tabernacle;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Bread, Bread of Presence;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Acacia;   Holy Place;   Shittah-Tree;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Shewbread;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Bread;   Exodus, Book of;   Table;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Colours;   Leviticus;   Tabernacle;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Censer;   Table ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Shew-Bread,;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Shittim;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Events of the Encampment;   Tabernacle, the;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Shewbread, the;   Shewbread, Table of;   Staff;   Tabernacle;   Table;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
You shall make the poles of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them.
King James Version
And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.
Lexham English Bible
And you will make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, and the table will be carried with them.
New Century Version
Make the poles out of acacia wood, cover them with gold, and carry the table with these poles.
New English Translation
You are to make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that the table may be carried with them.
Amplified Bible
"You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that the table may be carried with them.
New American Standard Bible
"And you shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that with them the table may be carried.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And thou shalt make the barres of Shittim wood, and shalt ouerlay them with golde, that the Table may be borne with them.
Legacy Standard Bible
You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that with them the table may be carried.
Complete Jewish Bible
Make the poles of acacia-wood, overlay them with gold, and use them to carry the table.
Darby Translation
And thou shalt make the staves of acacia-wood, and overlay them with gold; and the table shall be carried upon them.
Easy-to-Read Version
Use acacia wood to make the poles, and cover them with gold. The poles are for carrying the table.
English Standard Version
You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, and the table shall be carried with these.
George Lamsa Translation
You shall make the poles of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.
Good News Translation
Make the poles of acacia wood and cover them with gold.
Christian Standard Bible®
Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, and the table can be carried by them.
Literal Translation
And you shall make the poles of acacia wood, and you shall overlay them with gold. And the table shall be carried by them.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and thou shalt make the staues of Fyrre tre, & ouerlaye them with golde, yt the table maye be borne therwith.
American Standard Version
And thou shalt make the staves of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.
Bible in Basic English
Make rods of the same wood, plated with gold, for lifting the table.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And thou shalt make ye barres of Sittim wood, & ouerlay them with golde, that the table may be borne with them.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And thou shalt make the staves of acacia-wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.
King James Version (1611)
And thou shalt make the staues of Shittim wood, and ouerlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And thou shalt make the staves of incorruptible wood, and thou shalt gild them with pure gold; and the table shall be borne with them.
English Revised Version
And thou shalt make the staves of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.
Berean Standard Bible
Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that the table may be carried with them.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thou schalt make tho barris of the trees of Sechym, and thou schalt cumpas with gold to bere the boord.
Young's Literal Translation
and thou hast made the staves of shittim wood, and hast overlaid them with gold, and the table hath been borne with them;
Update Bible Version
And you shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.
Webster's Bible Translation
And thou shalt make the staffs [of] shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.
World English Bible
You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them.
New King James Version
And you shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them.
New Living Translation
Make these poles from acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.
New Revised Standard
You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, and the table shall be carried with these.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and thou shalt make the staves of acacia wood, and shalt overlay them with gold, - and the table shall be lifted there, with;
Douay-Rheims Bible
The bars also themselves thou shalt make of setim wood, and shalt overlay them with gold, to bear up the table.
Revised Standard Version
You shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, and the table shall be carried with these.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that with them the table may be carried.

Contextual Overview

23 "Make a table of acacia wood, two cubits long, one cubit wide, and one and a half cubits tall. 24 Cover it with pure gold and make a gold piece around it. 25 Make a piece around it as wide as a hand and put gold on the side of this piece all around. 26 Make four rings of gold for it. Put them on the four corners that are on the table's four legs. 27 The rings will be close to the sides, to hold the long pieces of wood used to carry the table. 28 Cut the long, straight pieces of acacia wood and cover them with gold. The table will be carried with these. 29 Make its plates, its pots and its jars, for pouring your gifts of drink. Make them of pure gold. 30 And set the holy bread on the table before Me all the time.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the table: Exodus 25:14, Exodus 25:27, Numbers 10:17, Acts 9:15

Reciprocal: Exodus 25:13 - General Exodus 27:7 - bear it Exodus 36:31 - General Ezekiel 41:22 - This is

Cross-References

Genesis 25:6
But while he was still living, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of the women he kept who acted as his wives. And he sent them to the land of the East, away from his son Isaac.
Genesis 25:7
Abraham lived 175 years.
Genesis 27:4
Get some food ready for me that I love. Bring it to me to eat, so that before I die I will pray that good will come to you."
Genesis 27:9
Go to the flock and bring me two fat young goats. I will cook them into good-tasting food, just what your father loves to eat.
Genesis 27:19
Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau, your first-born. I have done as you told me. Sit up and eat the meat I brought, so you will pray that good will come to me."
Genesis 27:25
So Isaac said, "Bring it to me so I may eat the meat my son has made ready. And I will pray that good will come to you." He brought it to him, and he ate. He brought him wine also, and he drank.
Genesis 27:31
Then Esau made good-tasting food and brought it to his father, and said, "Sit up, my father, and eat the meat your son has made ready, so you will pray that good will come to me."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And thou shall make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold,.... In like manner as the staves for the ark, and which were made of the same wood:

that the table may be borne with them; when moved from one place to another; these staves did not remain in the rings, as the staves for the ark did; but, as Josephus says w, were taken out, because they otherwise would have been in the way of the priests, who came every week to it, to set the shewbread on; and these were put in only when they carried it from place to place, as appears from Numbers 4:8.

w Antiqu. l. 3. c. 6. sect. 6.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

(Compare Exodus 37:10-16.) The table and the candlestick figured on the Arch of Titus at Rome are those of the Maccabaean times, but made as nearly as possible after the ancient models reproduced under the direction of Solomon and Zerubbabel. The details and size of the figure, and the description of Josephus, appear to agree very nearly with the directions here given to Moses, and to illustrate them in several particulars. Josephus says that the table was like the so-called Delphic tables, richly ornamented pieces of furniture in use amongst the Romans, which were sometimes, if not always, covered with gold or silver.

Exodus 25:24

See Exodus 25:11 note. The moulding of the table is still seen at the ends of the sculptured figure.

Exodus 25:25

A border - Rather a framing, which reached from leg to leg so as to make the table firm, as well as to adorn it with a second moulding of gold. Two fragments of such framing are still seen in the sculpture attached to the legs halfway down.

Exodus 25:27

Over against the border - Rather, Over against the framing; that is, the rings were to be placed not upon the framing itself, but at the extremities of the legs answering to each corner of it.

Exodus 25:29

Dishes - deep vessels like “bowls,” similar to the large silver vessels (or chargers) which were filled with fine flour, and formed part of the offerings of the Princes of Israel (Numbers 7:13 following).

Spoons - Rather, the small gold cups that were filled with frankincense in the offerings of the Princes Numbers 7:14, and represented on the table in the sculpture.

Covers ... bowls - Or flagons and chalices, such as were used for the rite of the drink offering, which appears to have regularly accompanied every Meat offering (Leviticus 23:18; Numbers 6:15; Numbers 28:14, etc.). The subject is important in its bearing upon the meaning of the showbread: the corrected rendering of the words tends to show that it was a true Meat offering.

To cover withal - See the margin. The first part of the verse might be better rendered: And thou shalt make its bowls and its incense-cups and its flagons and its chalices for pouring out “the drink offerings.”

Exodus 25:30

The showbread table was placed in the holy place on the north side Exodus 26:35. Directions for preparing the showbread are given in Leviticus 24:5-9. It consisted of twelve large cakes of unleavened bread, which were arranged on the table in two piles, with a golden cup of frankincense on each pile. It was renewed every Sabbath day. The stale loaves were given to the priests, and the frankincense appears to have been lighted on the altar for a memorial. The showbread, with all the characteristics and significance of a great national Meat offering, in which the twelve tribes were represented by the twelve cakes, was to stand before Yahweh “perpetually,” in token that He was always graciously accepting the good works of His people, for whom atonement had been made by the victims offered on the altar in the court of the sanctuary. The showbread or bread which is set forth would be more fairly rendered “bread of the presence.” See the notes at Leviticus 24:5-9.


 
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