Put the table... upon the side of the tabernacle northward. — On the right hand to one facing towards the vail. Moses may have known the right position from the pattern which was shewed him in the mount (Exodus 25:40).
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Exodus 40:22
22 And he put the table in the tent of the congregation, upon the side of the tabernacle northward, without the vail.