And shall put thereon the covering of badgers' skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof.
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Gill's Exposition
And shall put thereon the covering of badgers' skins,.... Not that which covered the tabernacle, for that was committed to the Gershonites, Num 4:25; but a covering made of these on purpose for the…
Barnes' Notes
wholly of blue - Compare Exo 25:4 note. The third and external covering of the ark only was to be of this color. The table of showbread had Num 4:8 an outer wrapping of scarlet; the altar Num 4:13 one…
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…
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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