Make a table of acacia wood — two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high. The table for the bread of the Presence is the second piece of furniture described. Its dimensions make it a standard table — approximately 3 feet long, 1.5 feet wide, 2.25 feet high. The table stands in the Holy Place (not the Most Holy Place), on the north side. The bread of the Presence — twelve loaves representing the twelve tribes — is placed on this table continuously. Leviticus 24:5–9 describes the bread as a perpetual covenant: twelve loaves replaced every Sabbath, always present before God. The table set before God is the covenant meal maintained perpetually — Israel is always at table with God through the bread of His presence.

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