Numbers 4:13
“They shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth on it.
One Unity Resource Bible
In The King James Version
And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth thereon:
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 39:1Of the blue, purple, and scarlet, they made finely worked garments, for ministering in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron [Light-bringer]; as Adonai enjoined Moses [Drawn out]. (RY:5, LY:2)
Leviticus 6:12+ 6:12. Lev 6:12 (Lev 6:12-13) [Heb Bible Lev 6:5 (Lev 6:5-6)] (#2b.120): T. To have a fire burning continually on the Altar of Burnt Offerings / R. To light a fire on the altar every day The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it, it shall not go out; and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning: and he shall lay the burnt offering in order upon it, and shall burn on it the fat of the peace offerings.
Numbers 4:11“On the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its 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 →