Numbers 4:11

11 On the gold altar they are to put a blue cloth, covering it with a leather cover; and they are to put its rods in their places.

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 And they are to take a blue cloth, covering with it the light-support with its lights and its instruments and its trays and all the oil vessels which are used for it:

10 All these they are to put in a leather cover, and put it on the frame.

11 On the gold altar they are to put a blue cloth, covering it with a leather cover; and they are to put its rods in their places.

12 All the vessels which are used in the holy place they are to put in a blue cloth, covering them with a leather cover, and put them on the frame.

13 And they are to take away the burned waste from the altar, and put a purple cloth on it;