Numbers 4:13

And they shall collect the cinders from the altar, and spread upon it a wrapper of crimson,

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth thereon:

In Context

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.

14And put thereon all its vessels by which they minister upon it; censers, fleshhooks, shovels, and basins; all the vessels of the altar; and spread over it a covering of hyacinthine skins, and inset its staves.

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Cross References

Exodus 39:1And of the hyacinth, and purple, and crimson, they made the vestments of ministration to minister in the sanctuary, and they made the holy vestments of Aharon, as the Lord commanded Mosheh.

Leviticus 6:12And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying,

Numbers 4:11And upon the golden altar they shall spread a purple wrapper, and cover it with a covering of hyacinth skins, and fix its staves.

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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