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Numbers 4:6

Numbers 4:6
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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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

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…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

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…

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),…