What Does Exodus 35:13 Mean in the King James?
The table, and his staves, and all his vessels, and the shewbread,
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
What English lists as furniture and food forms one image: provision sent forth and set before the Presence.
THE MEANING
The line gives provision a tangible form: a table, its carrying poles, its vessels, and bread of the Presence. Nourishment is something held and set within reach now.
THE ROOT
שֻׁלְחָן
shulchan
GROWS FROM
שלח
shalach
Send forth, release, stretch out the hand.
Shulchan carries the image of provision extended or sent forth. The table is not merely a surface in the list: it makes what is given reachable.
ALSO GROWS
shalach: Send forth, release, stretch out the hand.
שָׁלַח
The table’s name carries this movement of extending provision into reach.
Shiloach: Sent forth; the name of the waters of Siloam.
שִׁלֹחַ
The sent waters make provision a moving gift, as the table makes it a placed one.
לֶחֶם הַפָּנִים
lechem ha-panim
GROWS FROM
פנה
panah
Turn toward; face.
“shewbread” in this verse is lechem ha-panim. The Hebrew phrase is lechem ha-panim, literally “bread of the faces,” understood as bread of the Presence. English preserves the bread but can hide the face: nourishment and presence meet in the same phrase.
ALSO GROWS
panim: Face; presence.
פָּנִים
This is the word within “shewbread” that makes the bread face or presence bread.
panah: Turn toward; face.
פָּנָה
The root’s turning-toward quality brings attention to bread set before a presence.
THE PATTERN
Provision is made tangible when it is set before the presence, even amid opposition.
And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway.Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.THE THREAD
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.The Hebrew word translated “table” here is shulchan, the same word named in Exodus 35:13. Psalm 23 makes the table a present scene of provision set before the reader, even in the presence of enemies.
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