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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Tables
(Mark 7:4) means banqueting-couches or benches, on which the
Jews reclined when at meals. This custom, along with the use of
raised tables like ours was introduced among the Jews after the
Captivity. Before this they had properly speaking, no table.
That which served the purpose was a skin or piece of leather
spread out on the carpeted floor. Sometimes a stool was placed
in the middle of this skin. (See ABRAHAM'S {BOSOM};
{BANQUET}; {MEALS}.)
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