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Mishnah, Menachot, 11.5

nan The table was ten handbreadths long and five wide; the showbread was ten handbreadths long and five wide. Each cake was placed lengthwise across the breadth of the table, and two and a half handbreadths were turned up at either side so that its length filled the entire breadth of the table, the words of Rabbi Judah. Rabbi Meir says: the table was twelve handbreadths long and six wide; the showbread was ten handbreadths long and five wide. Each cake was placed lengthwise across the breadth of the table, and two handbreadths were turned up at either side; and there was a space of two handbreadths between [the two sets] so that the wind could blow between them. Abba Shaul says: there they used to put the two dishes of frankincense for the showbread. They said to him: Has it not already been said, “And you shall put pure frankincense upon [al] each row” (Leviticus 24:7)? He replied, But has it not also been said, “And next unto [al] him shall be the tribe of Manasseh” (Numbers 2:20)?"

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callixenus	Bar Kochba (1997) 166
leontopolis	Bar Kochba (1997) 166
onias iv	Bar Kochba (1997) 166
pseudo-hecataeus,on the jews,jewish education	Bar Kochba (1997) 166
pseudo-hecataeus,on the jews,knowledge of temple	Bar Kochba (1997) 166
ptolemy ii	Bar Kochba (1997) 166
ptolemy vi	Bar Kochba (1997) 166
tabernacle,votive offerings	Bar Kochba (1997) 166
temple (jerusalem),golden table'	Bar Kochba (1997) 166
temple (jerusalem),pseudo-hecataeus on	Bar Kochba (1997) 166