“You shall make a table of acacia wood. Its length shall be two cubits, and its width a cubit, and its height one and a half cubits.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 23. A table: on which were to be placed the twelve loaves of proposition; or, as they are called in the Hebrew, the face bread; because they were always to stand before the face of the Lord in his temple: as a figure of the eucharistic sacrifice and sacrament, in the church of Christ; ( Challoner.) which shews that Christ must be present in the eucharist. Worthington.—By this bread, renewed at the public expense every sabbath-day, the Israelites made profession that they were indebted for their food to God’s providence; and in gratitude, offered him this sacrifice, with incense and wine, verse 29. The priests alone were to eat these loaves (1 Kennicott. 21) at the expiration of the week. Tirinus.