Numbers 4:11

They are to spread a blue cloth over the gold altar, cover it with fine leather, and then insert its carrying poles.

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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

10Then have them wrap it together with all its utensils inside a fine leather covering and place it on the carrying frame.

12They are to place all the utensils used for the service in the sanctuary in a blue cloth, cover them with fine leather, and place them on the carrying frame.

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Cross References

Exodus 30:1“Make from acacia wood an altar for burning incense.

Exodus 39:38the gold altar, the anointing oil, the aromatic incense, and the screen for the tent's entrance;

Exodus 40:26Moses set up 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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