Numbers 4:7

And upon the table of the presence bread they shall spread a wrapper of purple, and on it put the bowls and mortars, and the measures and cups for libations, and the bread that is ever on it;

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and covers to cover withal: and the continual bread shall be thereon:

In Context

6And put over it a covering of hyacinthine skins, and overspread it with a wrapper, wholly purple, having inset its staves.

8And overspread it with a wrapper of scarlet, and cover it with a covering of hyacinth skins, having inset its staves.

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Cross References

Exodus 37:10And he made the TABLE of sittin woods; two cubits its length, and a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height.

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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