You shall bring in the table and arrange the things that are to be set in order on it; and you shall bring in the lampstand and light its lamps.
Parallel translations
- WEB You shall bring in the table, and set in order the things that are on it. You shall bring in the lamp stand, and light its lamps.
- KJV And thou shalt bring in the table, and set in order the things that are to be set in order upon it; and thou shalt bring in the candlestick, and light the lamps thereof.
- BSB Then bring in the table and set out its arrangement; bring in the lampstand as well, and set up its lamps.
- NASB Then you shall bring in the table and arrange what belongs on it; and you shall bring in the lampstand and mount its lamps.
- NLT Then bring in the table, and arrange the utensils on it. And bring in the lampstand, and set up the lamps.
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Quick answer
Moses was to bring in the table and arrange it, and set up the lampstand and light its lamps. The Holy Place was to be furnished and lit.
Overview
The table of the bread of the Presence and the golden lampstand were to be placed and made ready for service. The arranged bread and the burning lamps represented continual fellowship and light before God. These point to Christ, the Bread of Life and Light of the World, who sustains and illumines His people in their fellowship with God.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Lev 24:8Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before Yahweh continually. It is on the behalf of the children of Israel an everlasting covenant.
- Exod 25:23–39“You shall make a table of acacia wood. Two cubits shall be its length, and a cubit its width, and one and a half cubits its height.
- Exod 40:22–25He put the table in the Tent of Meeting, on the side of the tabernacle northward, outside of the veil.
- Exod 26:35–36You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lamp stand over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and you shall put the table on the north side.
- Exod 37:10–24He made the table of acacia wood. Its length was two cubits, and its width was a cubit, and its height was a cubit and a half.
- Lev 24:5–6“You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenths of an ephah shall be in one cake.
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The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.
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