Make the poles of acacia wood, overlay them with gold and carry the table with them. The consistency of materials — acacia overlaid with gold — extends to the table's carrying poles. The same material as the ark's poles: the sacred objects and their transport mechanisms share the same construction. The overlay of gold on the carrying poles means that even the means of transport participates in the holiness of what is transported. The gold-overlaid poles that carry the table of God's presence communicate that the movement of sacred things is itself sacred. The Kohathites who carry the tabernacle furniture are performing a holy task — the carrying is not a secular act but a liturgical one.

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