Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Exodus 25:29
And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: [of] pure gold shalt thou make them.
29. dishes ] also Exo 37:16, Num 4:7; Numbers , 14 times in Numbers 7 (‘charger,’ each weighing 130 shekels= c. 67 oz., and filled with fine flour mingled with oil). The root in Arab, signifies to be deep. A deep and large gold dish, or other similar vessel, must be thought of, in which the large oblong cakes were either brought to the Table, or laid out upon it.
spoons ] cups for the frankincense, which was placed upon the loaves, and burnt (Lev 24:7) at the end of the week on the altar of burnt-offering: LXX. (‘incense-cups’), as 1Ma 1:22 . Also Exo 37:16, Num 4:7; Num 4:16 times in Numbers 7 (each 10 shekels=5 oz. in weight, and filled with incense); and of the incense-cups in the Temple, 1Ki 7:50 al. Cf. Jos. Ant. iii. 6. 6 ‘and above the loaves were placed two golden cups ( ) full of incense’; and the cups upon the Table on the Arch of Titus.
flagons and chalices ( Speaker’s Comm.; LXX. )] viz. for the wine, which, though this is not stated explicitly in the OT., apparently entered into the ritual of the Presence-bread. The flagons (also Exo 37:16, Num 4:7, 1Ch 28:17 ) would be for keeping the wine in; the ‘chalices’ (Exo 37:16, Num 4:7, Jer 52:19 ) for making the libations with, we may suppose that, like other libations, they were poured out at the base of the Bronze altar (cf. Exo 29:40; Sir 50:15 ).
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 29. The dishes thereof] kearothaiv, probably the deep bowls in which they kneaded the mass out of which they made the shew-bread.
And spoons thereof] cappothaiu, probably censers, on which they put up the incense; as seems pretty evident from Nu 7:14, Nu 7:20, Nu 7:26, Nu 7:32, Nu 7:38, Nu 7:44, Nu 7:50, Nu 7:56, Nu 7:62, Nu 7:68, Nu 7:74, Nu 7:80, Nu 7:86, where the same word is used, and the instrument, whatever it was, is always represented as being filled with incense.
Covers thereof] kesothaiv, supposed to be a large cup or tankard, in which pure wine was kept on the table along with the shewbread for libations, which were poured out before the Lord every Sabbath, when the old bread was removed, and the new bread laid on the table.
Bowls thereof] menakkiyothaiv, from nakah, to clear away, remove, empty, c. supposed by Calmet to mean, either the sieves by which the Levites cleansed the wheat they made into bread, (for it is asserted that the grain, out of which the shew-bread was made, was sowed, reaped, ground, sifted, kneaded, baked, &c., by the Levites themselves,) or the ovens in which the bread was baked. Others suppose they were vessels which they dipped into the kesoth, to take out the wine for libations.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
The dishes, in which the bread and frankincense upon it were put, Lev 24:7. Of this sort there were twelve, one for every loaf.
Spoons, in which incense was put, as appears from Num 7:14, and by which incense was either put into the dishes or taken out of them, as occasion required.
Covers; so the Hebrew word is used, Exo 37:16; Num 4:7. Herewith either the bread, or incense, or both, were covered.
Bowls, to cover the same things. So this and the former were two several sorts of covers, the one deeper than the other, one to cover the bread, another the incense. Or, bowls thereof, to pour out withal, to wit, liquid things, as wine and oil, when they were offered. See Gen 35:14. Or these last words may relate not only to the bowls, but the other things, here mentioned, and may be thus rendered, wherewith it, to wit, the table, shall be covered, as indeed it was in a manner quite covered with these vessels.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
29. dishesbroad platters.
spoonscups or concavevessels, used for holding incense.
coversboth for breadand incense.
bowlscups; for thoughno mention is made of wine, libations were undoubtedly made to God,according to JOSEPHUS andthe rabbins, once a week, when the bread was changed.
to cover withalrather,”to pour out withal.”
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And thou shall make the dishes thereof,…. On which the shewbread loaves were set. Jarchi says they were of the form of the bread, and that there were two sorts, one of gold, and one of iron; in the iron one the bread was baked, and when they took it out of the oven, they put it into the golden one until the morrow of the sabbath, when they set it in order upon the table; and that form is called “Kaarah”, which we render a dish:
and the spoons thereof; or rather “cups”; these, Jarchi says, were censers, in which they put the frankincense; and there were two of them for the two handfuls of frankincense, which they put upon the two rows of shewbread, Le 24:7. Josephus x calls them vials, and says, that on the bread were put two golden vials full of frankincense:
and the covers thereof, and the bowls thereof, to cover withal; the one to cover the bread, and the other to cover the frankincense; or all the above said vessels were to cover the table, and with them all it must be pretty well covered with vessels. The Jews give a different account of these two last, and of their use, which we render “covers” and “bowls”: the first of these Jarchi says were like the half of hollow reeds divided to their length, made of gold; and three of them were laid in order on the top of every loaf, so that one loaf rested upon these reeds; and they separated between loaf and loaf, so that the air could come in between them, and they did not become mouldy; the latter, he says, were props like stakes of gold standing on the ground, and they were higher than the table, even as high as the rows of bread; and they were forked with live forks, one above another, and the tops (or ends) of the reeds, which were between each loaf, rested upon these forks, that so the weight of the upper loaves might not be too heavy for the lower ones, and break them. A like account of them Ben Melech gives, and observes, that some make the first word to signify the props, and the second the reeds; and so they are interpreted by Maimonides y; and, according to the Misnah z, the props were four, and the reeds twenty eight. According to the Septuagint version, these were vessels used in libations, or drink offerings; and the last clause is rendered in it, “with which thou shall pour out”: wine or oil, and so in some other versions; but it will be difficult to find any use for such libations or drink offerings at this table.
x Antiq. l. 3. c. 6. sect. 6. y Pirush in Misn. Menachot, c. 11. sect. 6. z Menachot, ib.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Vessels of pure gold were also to be made, to stand upon the table (cf. Exo 37:16). , (lxx), large deep plates, in which the shew-bread was not only brought to the table, but placed upon it. These plates cannot have been small, for the silver , presented by Nahshon the tribe prince, weighed 130 shekels (Num 7:13). , from a hollow hand, small scoops, according to Num 7:14, only ten shekels in weight, used to put out the incense belonging to the shew-bread upon the table (cf. Lev 24:7 and Num 7:14): lxx , i.e., according to the Etymol. Magn., . There were also two vessels “to pour out,” sc., the drink-offering, or libation of wine: viz., , (lxx), sacrificial spoons to make the libation of wine with, and , (lxx), goblets into which the wine was poured, and in which it was placed upon the table. (See Exo 37:16 and Num 4:7, where the goblets are mentioned before the sacrificial spoons.)
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
(29) The dishes thereof . . . The dishes of the shewbread table were probably large bowls in which the loaves or cakes were brought to the table. Such bowls are common in the Egyptian wall decorations. The so-called spoons were small pots in which the incense was put (Lev. 24:7) and burnt. Two such appeared upon the table on the Arch of Titus. The covers and bowls are flagons and chalices to contain the drink offerings which were necessary accompaniments of every meat offering. To cover withal.Rather (as in the margin), to pour out withal. Drink offerings were poured out in libation.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
29. The dishes Probably large deep plates used for the purpose of carrying the showbread to and from the table .
Spoons Or, perhaps, cups, small hollow vessels used sometimes, according to Num 7:14, for holding incense.
Covers bowls These were vessels for holding the drink offerings, as appears from the words which immediately follow, to pour out withal, (margin,) wrongly translated to cover withal. The Speaker’s Commentary renders this part of the verse thus: “And thou shalt make its bowls and its incense-cups and its flagons and its chalices for pouring out, (the drink offerings.)”
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Exo 25:29. And thou shalt make the dishes thereof The dishes were patens, or a sort of charger wherein to put the shew bread; Num 7:13. The spoons, as appears from Num 7:14 were vases for containing incense; and therefore some think that, with the LXX, the word would have been rendered more properly censers, as, most likely, they were to hold the frankincense which was put upon the shew-bread; Lev 24:7. The covers thereof are sufficiently shewn, Exo 37:16 to mean, according to the translation of the LXX, cups for libation, (see also Num 4:7.) and the bowls were large bowls or goblets, which contained the sacred liquor whereof the libation was to be made, and which was to be taken from the larger bowls by the smaller cups or vessels just mentioned. The four words might thus be rendered, the patens, and the censers thereof; and the cups, and the bowls thereof, wherewith they may make libation. Josephus mentions, that when Pompey went into the holy place, he saw there, among other vessels, , or cups for libation; and, as libations were made to God by pouring out wine before him in the holy place, (see Num 28:7.) so it is reasonable to believe that these bowls contained sacred wine, constantly kept upon the table, as it appears from the next verse that bread was constantly preserved there. Calmet informs us, from the Jewish traditions, that there was always a vessel full of excellent wine placed on the table with the shew-bread, and that, when the bread was changed, the wine was poured out as a libation before the Lord; and, probably, this table, with its furniture of bread and wine, might have been figurative of HIM who set forth in his own Person the meat and drink of eternal life for the food of true believers, and who always appears in the presence of his Father, to make intercession for us. Heb 9:24.
See commentary on Exo 25:23
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Exo 25:29 And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: [of] pure gold shalt thou make them.
Ver. 29. The dishes thereof, &c. ] Haply to hold the loaves and frankincense.
Spoons.
Covers and bowls to cover withal.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
to cover = to pour out.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
the: Exo 37:16, Num 4:7, Num 7:13, Num 7:19, Num 7:31-33, 1Ki 7:50, 2Ch 4:22, Ezr 1:9-11, Jer 52:18, Jer 52:19
to cover: or, to pour out, Lev 24:5-9, Son 5:1, Rev 3:20
Reciprocal: Zec 14:20 – the bowls
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
25:29 And thou shalt make the {h} dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: [of] pure gold shalt thou make them.
(h) To set the bread upon.