Numbers 4:6

On top of this they are to put a fine leather covering, spread a cloth of solid blue over it, and then insert its carrying poles.

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In The King James Version

And shall put thereon the covering of badgers’ skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof.

In Context

5Whenever you move camp, Aaron and his sons will go in, take down the veil, and place it over the Ark of the Testimony.

7Have them spread a blue cloth over the table of the Presence as well, and put the plates and cups on it, as well as the bowls and jugs for the drink offering. The current bread offering is to stay on it.

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Cross References

Exodus 25:13Make poles of acacia wood and cover them with gold.

Exodus 39:1They made woven clothing from blue, purple, and crimson thread for serving in the sanctuary. They also made holy garments for Aaron, as the Lord had ordered Moses to do.

Numbers 4:7Have them spread a blue cloth over the table of the Presence as well, and put the plates and cups on it, as well as the bowls and jugs for the drink offering. The current bread offering is to stay on it.

1 Kings 8:7The cherubim spread their wings over the place where the Ark was, covering the Ark and its carrying poles.

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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