Numbers 4:7
And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and covers to cover withal: and the continual bread shall be thereon:
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Gill's Exposition
And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue,.... That that also might not be seen nor touched by the Levites:
and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and the…
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
shewbread Presence-bread, i.e. bread that is placed in the divine Presence. 1Sa 21:6 is evidence that the practice was observed in early times. It was probably a relic of the primitive heathen notion…