Exodus - 25:25



25 You shall make a rim of a handbreadth around it. You shall make a golden molding on its rim around it.

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Explanation and meaning of Exodus 25:25.

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And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.
And thou shalt make unto it a border of a handbreadth round about; and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.
And to the ledge itself a polished crown, four inches high: and over the same another little golden crown.
And thou shalt make for it a margin of a handbreadth round about, and shalt make a border of gold for the margin thereof round about.
and hast made for it a border of a handbreadth round about, and hast made a crown of gold to its border round about.
And make a frame all round it, as wide as a man's hand, with a gold edge to the frame.
and for the lip itself an engraved crown, four fingers high, and above it another little gold crown.
Facies quoque ei clausuram latam quatuor digitos in circuitu: faciesque coronam auream clausurae illi in circuitu.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

A border - Rather a framing, which reached from leg to leg so as to make the table firm, as well as to adorn it with a second moulding of gold. Two fragments of such framing are still seen in the sculpture attached to the legs halfway down.

And thou shalt make unto it a border of art hand's breadth round about,.... Jarchi says, their wise men are divided about this; some say it was above, round about the table; others say it was below, fixed from foot to foot at the four corners of the table, and the board of the table lay upon the border:
and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about; this was not the same spoke of in the former verse, but another; that was above, and upon the table, this below and under it; or rather that was, as it may be better expressed, a lip, rim, or border, that went round within the table (u); and this crown, surrounded that on the edge of it.
(u) So R. Song. Urbin. Ohel Moed, fol. 61. 2.

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