Numbers 4:11

They must spread a cloth of blue on the gold altar. They must cover it with a covering of sea cow skins, and then insert the carrying poles.

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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

10They must put the lampstand and all its accessories into a covering of sea cow skins, and they must put it on a carrying frame.

12They must take all the equipment for the work in the holy place and wrap it in a blue cloth. They must cover it with sea cow skins and put the equipment on the carrying frame.

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Cross References

Exodus 30:1You must make an altar to burn incense. You must make it with acacia wood.

Exodus 39:38the golden altar, the anointing oil and the fragrant incense; the hanging for the tabernacle entrance;

Exodus 40:26He put the golden incense altar into the tent of meeting in front of the curtain.

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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