What Does Exodus 37:10 Mean?
And he made the table of shittim wood. Two forearms was its length, one its breadth, and one and a half forearms its standing height.
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King James wording
King James Version
And he made the table of shittim wood: two cubits was the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof:THE KEY
The table’s name carries the motion of shalach: provision is sent forth into a place where it can be received.
THE MEANING
The verse gives sacred provision a body and proportions: the table is made from shittim wood, with length, breadth, and height. What is set before God has a prepared, tangible place. Provision reaches the reader as something embodied and made present.
THE ROOT
שֻׁלְחָן
shulḥan
GROWS FROM
שלח
To send, send forth, release, or stretch out the hand.
English “table” sounds like a fixed object; שֻׁלְחָן (shulḥan, table) carries the motion of שלח (shalach, send forth). The measured object becomes a place where provision is extended into reach and received.
ALSO GROWS
shalach: Send, send forth, release, stretch out the hand.
שָׁלַח
The table carries this root’s motion: provision is sent forth onto a surface where it can be received.
Shiloach: Sent forth; the name of a watercourse.
שִׁלֹחַ
Like the sent waters of Shiloach, the table extends provision toward the one who receives it.
THE PATTERN
Provision becomes present through a prepared place where it is set before others.
And you set upon the table the bread of the face before me always.You lay out a table before my face, in full view of those who press me. You make my head rich with oil; my cup is soaked full.You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot share in the Lord's table and the table of demons.THE THREAD
And you set upon the table the bread of the face before me always.The same word, שֻׁלְחָן (shulḥan, table), appears where the bread is set continually before God. That purpose opens the measured table here as prepared space for provision, not merely an object with dimensions.
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