Numbers 4:9

9 "Then they shall take a blue cloth and cover the ¹lampstand for the light, ²along with its lamps and its snuffers, and its trays and all its oil vessels, by which they serve it;

Numbers 4:9 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 4:9

And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick
of the light, and his lamps
Which had lamps in it, and were continually lighted, and gave light in the holy place:

and his tongs, and his snuff dishes, and all the oil vessels thereof,
wherewith they minister unto it;
by supplying the lamps with oil, and snuffing and trimming them.

Numbers 4:9 In-Context

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

8 "They 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.

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

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

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

Cross References

• 1. Exodus 25:31
• 2. Exodus 25:37, 38

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "violet"
• [b]. Lit "snuff dishes"