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Is reclining at the table while eating, a custom during Jesus' time?



      

Luke 22:14

NKJV - 14 When the hour had come, He sat down, and the twelve apostles with Him.

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Yes. The tables used for eating we're low to the ground, and the people sat or reclined on the floor around the table.

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