Commentary for Menachot 196:22
אלא מי סברת חד דרא הוה תרי דרי נינהו
Furthermore, we would then have five tables on the south side!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In contravention of the Biblical ordinance. Cf. Ex. XXVI, 35.');"><sup>30</sup></span> And further, where did the table of Moses stand?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which stood, according to the Baraitha quoted above p. 601, between the other tables. There was thus insufficient room for all eleven tables.');"><sup>31</sup></span> - But according to your argument [this question could] also [be raised] against him who said [that they stood lengthwise] from east to west: Where did the table of Moses stand?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If it was among the other tables then one table must have stood completely in the front half of the Sanctuary!');"><sup>32</sup></span> But in fact [there is no difficulty] for you have assumed, have you not, that they stood in one row? [In reality, however,] they stood in two rows.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Each row consisting of five tables and measuring ten cubits by one cubit. The table of Moses stood by itself between the two rows.');"><sup>33</sup></span>