Numbers 4:6
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| Overview - Numbers 4 | |||||
| 1 | The age at which the Levites were to begin to serve, and the duration of the service. | ||||
| 4 | The duty of the Kohathites. | ||||
| 16 | The charge of Eleazar. | ||||
| 17 | The office of the priests. | ||||
| 21 | The duty of the Gershonites; | ||||
| 29 | of the Merarites. | ||||
| 34 | The number of the Kohathites; | ||||
| 38 | of the Gershonites | 42 | and of the Merarites. |  | ||
Numbers 4:6 (King James Version)
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.
- badgers' skins
- This was not the covering of badgers' skins made for the tabernacle, which was carried by the Gershonites, (ver. 24, 25,) but one made for the purpose of concealing and
- sheltering the ark when it was to be carried.* a cloth. 7,8,11-13 Ex 35:19 39:1,41
- and shall put
- {Wesamoo baddaiv,} rather, "and adjust the staves thereof;" i
- e., dispose them rightly under the covering, that they might be laid on their shoulders: for the staves were never taken out of the rings.
- the staves
- Exodus 25:13-15 ; 1 Kings 8:7 1 Kings 8:8