Numbers 4:11

On the gold altar they are to put a blue cloth, covering it with a leather cover; and they are to put its rods in their places.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put to the staves thereof:

In Context

10All these they are to put in a leather cover, and put it on the frame.

12All the vessels which are used in the holy place they are to put in a blue cloth, covering them with a leather cover, and put them on the frame.

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Cross References

Exodus 30:1And you are to make an altar for the burning of perfume; of hard wood let it be made.

Exodus 39:38And the gold altar, and the holy oil, and the sweet perfume for burning, and the curtain for the doorway of the tent;

Exodus 40:26And he put the gold altar in the Tent of meeting, in front of the veil:

Matthew Henry on Numbers 4:2-21

The Office of the Levites. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 2 Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers, 3 From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation. 4 This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, about the most holy things: 5 And when the camp setteth forward,… Read the whole commentary →

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