Numbers 4:11

11 Over the altar of gold they will spread a blue cloth, and they will cover it with a covering of {fine leather} and place its poles.

Numbers 4:11 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 4:11

And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue,
&c.] The altar of incense, which was overlaid with gold, and therefore called a golden one, to which the allusion is in ( Revelation 8:3 ) ;

and cover it with a covering of badgers' skins;
after the cloth of blue was spread upon it:

and shall put to the staves thereof;
into the rings, both made to bear and carry it, upon occasion, from place to place.

Numbers 4:11 In-Context

9 They will take a blue cloth and cover the lampstand for the light source, its lamps, a pair of its tongs, its small pans, and all the vessels of its oil with which they attend to it.

10 They will put it and all its vessels inside a covering of {fine leather} and put it on the carrying frame.

11 Over the altar of gold they will spread a blue cloth, and they will cover it with a covering of {fine leather} and place its poles.

12 They will take all the vessels of the cultic service with which they serve in the sanctuary and put [them] on a blue cloth, and they will cover them with a covering of {fine leather}; and they will put [them] on the carrying frame.

13 They will remove the fat-soaked ashes from the altar and spread a purple cloth over it;

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "the hide of a sea cow"