Numbers 4:12

And they shall take all the instruments of service, with which they minister in the sanctuary: and shall place them in a cloth of blue, and shall cover them with blue skin covering, and put them upon staffs.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And they shall take all the instruments of ministry, wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put them on a bar:

In Context

11And they shall put a blue cloth for a cover on the golden altar, and shall cover it with a blue skin cover, and put in its staffs.

13And he shall put the covering on the altar, and they shall cover it with a cloth all of purple.

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Cross References

Exodus 31:10and Aaron’s robes of ministry, and the robes of his sons to minister to me as priests,

Numbers 4:7And they shall put on the table set forth for showbread a cloth all of purple, and the dishes, and the censers, and the cups, and the vessels with which one offers drink offerings; and the continual loaves shall be upon it.

2 Kings 25:14And the caldrons, and the shovels, and the bowls, and the censers, and all the brazen vessels with which they minister, he took.

1 Chronicles 9:29And some of them were appointed over the furniture, and over all the holy vessels, and over the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the frankincense, and the spices.

2 Chronicles 4:16and the footbaths, and the buckets, and the caldrons, and the fleshhooks, and all their furniture (which Hiram made, and brought to King Solomon in the house of the Lord) of pure brass.

2 Chronicles 4:22And there was the inner door of the house opening into the holy of holies, and he made the inner doors of the temple of gold. So all the work which Solomon wrought for the house of the Lord was finished.

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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