Quoting%20commentary for Menachot 196:20

ותו כהנים היכי הוו עיילי ותו מצינו חמשה שלחנות בדרום ותו שלחן דמשה היכא מנח ליה

were placed in the twenty cubits;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the twenty cubits furthest from the entrance of the Sanctuary. It is assumed, for the present, that the ten tables were placed head to head in one long line, thus forming one table measuring twenty cubits by one cubit. Now although it is impossible to place lengthwise an object twenty cubits long in a space exactly twenty cubits long or wide, since there was more space available in the Sanctuary it was of small consequence if the table protruded a little beyond the twenty cubits allotted to it.');">²⁶</span> but according to him who said [that they stood lengthwise] from north to south, how could the ten tables be placed in twenty cubits?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For the Sanctuary was twenty cubits wide and the tables were placed parallel with the width of the Sanctuary.');">²⁷</span>

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