Numbers 4:11

And upon the golden altar they shall spread a purple wrapper, and cover it with a covering of hyacinth skins, and fix its staves.

Targum Onkelos

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 put it and all its vessels into a covering of hyacinthine skins, and set it upon a bar.

12And they shall take all the vessels of the ministry with which they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of purple, and cover them with a covering of hyacinth skins, and set them upon bars.

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Cross References

Exodus 30:1And thou shalt make an altar upon which to burn fragrant incense, of woods of sittin shalt thou make it.

Exodus 39:38And the golden altar, and the oil of consecration, and the sweet incense; and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle;

Exodus 40:26And he set the golden altar in the tabernacle of ordinance before 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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