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Numbers 4:11

Numbers 4:11
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:

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue,.... The altar of incense, which was overlaid with gold, and therefore called a golden one, to which the allusion is in Rev 8:3,

and cover…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Numbers 4:1-20

We have here a second muster of the tribe of Levi. As that tribe was taken out of all Israel to be God's peculiar, so the middle-aged men of that tribe were taken from among the rest to be actually…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Numbers 4:5-14

When finally ready for the march the burden of the Kohathites would be seen simply as six large packages as follows. (i) The Ark(Num 4:4 f.), covered with the -veil of the screen" (see on Num 3:31),…

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