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.

New Heart English Bible

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 shall put it and all its vessels within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it on the frame.

12They shall take all the vessels of ministry, with which they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a blue cloth, and cover them with a covering of sealskin, and shall put them on the frame.

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Cross References

Exodus 30:1"You shall make an altar to burn incense on. You shall make it of acacia wood.

Exodus 39:38the golden altar, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, the screen for the door of the Tent,

Exodus 40:26He put the golden altar in the Tent of Meeting 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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