Exodus 25:29

dishes also Exodus 37:16; Numbers 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 (Leviticus 24:7) at the end of the week on the altar of burnt-offering: LXX. θυίσκαι (-incense-cups"), as 1Ma 1:22. Also Exodus 37:16; Numbers 4:7; Numbers 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, 1 Kings 7:50 al.Cf. Jos. Ant.iii. 6. 6 -and above the loaves were placed two golden cups (φιάλαι) full of incense"; and the cups upon the Table on the Arch of Titus.

flagons … and chalices (Speaker's Comm.; LXX. κύαθοι)] 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 Exodus 37:16; Numbers 4:7; 1 Chronicles 28:17 †) would be for keeping the wine in; the -chalices" (Exodus 37:16; Numbers 4:7; Jeremiah 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. Exodus 29:40; Sir 50:15).