The Table^(A)

²³ “Make a table^(B) of acacia wood—two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high.^[a]

³⁰ Put the bread of the Presence^(A) on this table to be before me at all times.

⁶ Arrange them in two stacks, six in each stack, on the table of pure gold^(A) before the Lord.

⁴¹ You sat on an elegant couch,^(A) with a table^(B) spread before it on which you had placed the incense^(C) and olive oil that belonged to me.^(D)

¹⁶ They alone are to enter my sanctuary; they alone are to come near my table^(A) to minister before me and serve me as guards.^(B)

⁷ “By offering defiled food^(A) on my altar.

“But you ask,^(B) ‘How have we defiled you?’

“By saying that the Lord’s table^(C) is contemptible.

¹² “But you profane it by saying, ‘The Lord’s table^(A) is defiled,’ and, ‘Its food^(B) is contemptible.’