The Table

²³ ‘You are to construct a table^(A) of acacia wood, ninety centimetres long, forty-five centimetres wide, and seventy centimetres high.^[a]

³⁰ Put the Bread of the Presence^(A) on the table before me at all times.

⁶ Arrange them in two rows, six to a row, on the pure gold table^(A) before the Lord.

⁴¹ You sat on a luxurious couch with a table spread before it,^(A) on which you had set my incense and oil.

¹⁶ ‘They are the ones who may enter my sanctuary^(A) and approach my table to serve me.^(B) They will keep my mandate.

⁷ ‘By presenting defiled food on my altar.’

‘How have we defiled you? ’ you ask.^(A)

When you say, ‘The Lord’s table is contemptible.’^(B)

¹² ‘But you are profaning it^(A) when you say, “The Lord’s table is defiled, and its product, its food, is contemptible.”