And you shall make its dishes, and its spoons, and its covers, and its bowls for pouring: of pure gold shall you make them.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Dishes. (acetabulum.) Properly a vessel to hold vinegar, but used for various purposes.
Bowls, or vials full of wine. (To stat)
Censers, to contain incense, chap. xxxvii. 16. The first term, karuth, might also mean vessels to contain the flour and oil of which these loaves were made, Numbers vii. 13. The Levites made the bread themselves, (1 Paralipomenon xxii. 29,) and even sowed the corn, and did every thing about it. (St. Jerome in Malachi as i. 7.) The second term, coputh, may denote vessels to keep incense; the third, monkiuth, instruments to clean either the floor or the table All these vessels seem mended to accompany the table of shew-bread.
Cups, used for libations (chap. xxxvii. 16; Numbers iv. 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 ii. 13.
