You shall make its dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls with which to pour out offerings. You shall make them of pure gold.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 29. Dishes. (acetabulum.) Properly, a vessel to hold vinegar, but used for various purposes.—Bowls, or vials full of wine. Tostat.—Censers, to contain incense, and so forth Calmet. 37:16. The first term, karuth, might also mean vessels to contain the flour and oil of which these loaves were made. Numbers 7:13. The Levites made the bread themselves, (1 Chronicles 22:19,) and even sowed the corn, and did every thing about it. Saint Jerome in Mal. i. 7. The second term, coputh, may denote vessels to keep incense; the third, monkiuth, instruments to clean either the floor or the table, and so forth All these vessels seem mended to accompany the table of shew-bread.—Cups, used for libations (Calmet. 37:16. Numbers 4:7,) of wine, on the sabbath. Kossuth signifies a porringer or dish, like the ancient patera. Whether wine was placed on this table, we cannot determine. But we read of salt, ( Calmet.) which was to accompany all God’s sacrifices. Leviticus 2:13.