New American Standard Bible 1995

Numbers 4:6-13

6and they shall lay a 1covering of porpoise skin on it, and shall spread over it a cloth of pure 2blue, and shall insert its poles.

7Over the table of the bread of the Presence they shall also spread a cloth of 3blue and put on it the dishes and the pans and the sacrificial bowls and the jars for the drink offering, and 4the continual bread shall be on it.

8They shall spread over them a cloth of scarlet material, and cover the same with a covering of porpoise skin, and they shall insert its poles.

9Then they shall take a 5blue cloth and cover the 6lampstand for the light, 7along with its lamps and its snuffers, and its 8trays and all its oil vessels, by which they serve it;

10and they shall put it and all its utensils in a covering of porpoise skin, and shall put it on the carrying bars.

11Over the golden altar they shall spread a 9blue cloth and cover it with a covering of porpoise skin, and shall insert its poles;

12and they shall take all the utensils of service, with which they serve in the sanctuary, and put them in a 10blue cloth and cover them with a covering of porpoise skin, and put them on the carrying bars.

13Then they shall take away the 11ashes from the 12altar, and spread a purple cloth over it.

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Notes

1. Numbers 4:6 Num 4:25 ↩
2. Numbers 4:6 Or violet ↩
3. Numbers 4:7 Or violet ↩
4. Numbers 4:7 Ex 25:30; Lev 24:5-9 ↩
5. Numbers 4:9 Or violet ↩
6. Numbers 4:9 Ex 25:31 ↩
7. Numbers 4:9 Ex 25:37, 38 ↩
8. Numbers 4:9 Lit snuff dishes ↩
9. Numbers 4:11 Or violet ↩
10. Numbers 4:12 Or violet ↩
11. Numbers 4:13 Or fat ashes; i.e. soaked with fat ↩
12. Numbers 4:13 Ex 27:1-8 ↩

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Commentaries on Numbers 4