Numbers 4:11

And they shall wrap up the golden altar also in a cloth of violet, and shall spread over it a cover of violet skins, and put in the bars.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

10And over all they shall put a cover of violet skins and put in the bars.

12All the vessels wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, they shall wrap up in a cloth of violet, and shall spread over it a cover of violet skins, and put in the bars.

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Cross References

Exodus 30:1Thou shalt make also an altar to burn incense, of setim wood.

Exodus 39:38And the hanging in the entry of the tabernacle:

Exodus 40:26And he put also the hanging in the entry of the tabernacle of the testimony,

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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