| Exodus 25:29
| Thou shalt prepare also dishes, and bowls, censers, and cups, wherein the libations are to be offered, of the purest gold.
| Dishes. (acetabulum.) Properly a vessel to hold vinegar, but used for various purposes. --- Bowls, or vials full of wine. (Tostat) --- Censers, to contain incense, etc., Exodus 37:16. The first term, karuth, might also mean vessels to contain the flour and oil of which these loaves were made, Numbers 7:13. The Levites made the bread themselves, (1 Paralipomenon 22:29,) and even sowed the corn, and did every thing about it. (St. Jerome in Malachias 1:7.) The second term, coputh, may denote vessels to keep incense; the third, monkiuth, instruments to clean either the floor or the table, etc. All these vessels seem mended to accompany the table of shew-bread. --- Cups, used for libations (chap. 37:16; Numbers 4:7) of wine, on the sabbath. Kossuth signifies a porringer or dish, like the ancient patera. Whether wine was placed on this table, we cannot determine. But we read of salt, (Calmet) which was to accompany all God's sacrifices, Leviticus 2:13.
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