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You shall make its dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls to pour out offerings with. Of pure gold shall you make them.
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Every Vessel Had a Purpose
Commentators explain that the gold dishes, cups, and flagons were not mere decorations but functional tools for worship. The dishes held the Bread of the Presence, the small cups (not spoons) held frankincense, and the flagons and bowls were for pouring out drink offerings. This detail underscores that every part of the tabernacle was intentionally designed for specific acts of honoring God.
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Exodus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
(). The table and the candlestick depicted on the Arch of Titus at Rome are those of the Maccabean times, but made as closely as possible after the…
19th Century
Anglican
Its dishes ... — The “dishes” of the shewbread table were probably large bowls in which the loaves or “cakes” were brought to the …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And you shall make the dishes thereof On which the shewbread loaves were set. Jarchi says they were of the form of t…
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