Numbers 4:6
And shall cover it again with a cover of violet skins, and shall spread over it a cloth all of violet, and shall put in the bars.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Exodus 25:13Thou shalt make bars also of setim wood, and shalt overlay them with gold.
Exodus 39:1And he made, of violet and purple, scarlet and fine linen, the vestments for Aaron to wear when he ministered in the holy places, as the Lord commanded Moses.
Numbers 4:7They shall wrap up also the table of proposition in a cloth of violet, and shall put with it the censers and little mortars, the cups and bowls to pour out the libations: the leaves shall be always on it:
1 Kings 8:7For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and covered the art, and the staves thereof above.
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 →