Place the bread before the Lord on the pure gold table, and arrange the loaves in two stacks, with six loaves in each stack.
Parallel translations
- WEB You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold table before Yahweh.
- KJV And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD.
- BSB and set them in two rows—six per row—on the table of pure gold before the LORD.
- NKJV You shall set them in two rows, six in a row, on the pure gold table before the Lord.
- NASB And you shall set them in two rows, six to a row, on the pure gold table before the Lord.
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Quick answer
The twelve loaves were arranged in two rows of six on the pure gold table before the LORD. Worship was ordered and beautiful.
Overview
The bread was carefully set in two ordered rows on the golden table within the holy place. The deliberate arrangement before God expressed Israel's standing in his presence as a people set apart for fellowship with him. Such ordered nearness foreshadows the access believers now enjoy through Christ at the table of communion.
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- 1 Kgs 7:48Solomon made all the vessels that were in Yahweh’s house: the golden altar and the table that the show bread was on, of gold;
- Exod 25:23–24“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.
- 2 Chr 13:11and they burn to Yahweh every morning and every evening burnt offerings and sweet incense. They also set the show bread in order on the pure table; and the lamp stand of gold with its lamps, to burn every evening; for we keep the instruction of Yahweh our God, but you have forsaken him.
- Exod 37:10–16He 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.
- 2 Chr 4:19Solomon made all the vessels that were in God’s house, the golden altar also, and the tables with the show bread on them;
- Heb 9:2For a tabernacle was prepared. In the first part were the lamp stand, the table, and the show bread; which is called the Holy Place.
- Exod 39:36the table, all its vessels, the show bread,
- 1 Cor 14:40Let all things be done decently and in order.
- Exod 40:22–23He put the table in the Tent of Meeting, on the side of the tabernacle northward, outside of the veil.
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