Numbers 4:13

And they are to take away the burned waste from the altar, and put a purple cloth on it;

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth thereon:

In Context

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.

14Placing on the cloth all its vessels, the fire-baskets, the meat-hooks, the spades, and the basins; all the vessels of the altar; they are to put a leather cover over all these, and put its rods in their places.

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Cross References

Exodus 39:1And from the needlework of blue and purple and red they made the robes used for the work of the holy place, and the holy robes for Aaron, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.

Leviticus 6:12\6:19\And the Lord said to Moses,

Numbers 4:11On 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.

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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