Numbers 4:10

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

Numbers 4:10 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 4:10

And they shall put it, and all the vessels thereof, within a
covering of badgers' skins
Which here also was the outermost covering; the ark and the shewbread table had three coverings, but the candlestick only two, they being more sacred than that, especially the ark:

and shall put [it] upon a bar;
the word "mot" perhaps signifies a kind of mat or mattress, on which the candlestick and its vessels, bundled together in the covering of the badgers' skins, were laid and carried between men on staves; and so the Septuagint render the word "staves"; as does the Targum of Onkelos.

Numbers 4:10 In-Context

8 They will spread over it a scarlet cloth, and they will cover it with a covering of {fine leather}, and they will place its poles.

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.

Footnotes

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