Reference for Menachot 188:3
בשלמא למאן דאמר כמין תיבה פרוצה היינו דהוו יתבי קנים אלא למאן דאמר כמין ספינה רוקדת קנים היכי הוו יתבי מורשא עביד להו
- A special place was made for them.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In the topmost cake there was made a projection or ledge of dough upon which the dishes were placed.');"><sup>5</sup></span> Again according to him who says 'like a broken box', we clearly understand how the rods lay [on the sides of the cakes],<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V: infra 96a. There were twenty-eight rods each shaped like the half of a hollow reed, fourteen being used for one row of the Shewbread and fourteen for the other. And the cakes were arranged as follows: the nethermost cake stood on the table; three rods were placed above it, their ends resting on the perpendicular or rising sides of the cake and also in the grooves of the two upright props (v. infra p. 579, n. 1) , and the second cake was placed on the rods. Three rods were similarly placed above the second, third and fourth cakes, but only two above the fifth, since it only had to bear the pressure of one single cake.');"><sup>6</sup></span>