Numbers 4:12

12 and they shall take all the utensils of service, with which they serve in the sanctuary, and put them in a blue cloth and cover them with a covering of porpoise skin, and put them on the carrying bars.

Numbers 4:12 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 4:12

And they shall take all the instruments of ministry,
wherewith they minister in the sanctuary
The garments in which the priests, ministered in the sanctuary, which were laid up in proper places, and which they only wore when in service:

and put [them] in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of
badgers' skins;
all wrapped up in one bundle:

and shall put [them] on a bar;
the same sort of carriage on which the candlestick and its vessels were borne, (See Gill on Numbers 4:10).

Numbers 4:12 In-Context

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;

12 and they shall take all the utensils of service, with which they serve in the sanctuary, and put them in a blue cloth and cover them with a covering of porpoise skin, and put them on the carrying bars.

13 "Then they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth over it.

14 "They shall also put on it all its utensils by which they serve in connection with it: the firepans, the forks and shovels and the basins, all the utensils of the altar; and they shall spread a cover of porpoise skin over it and insert its poles.

Footnotes

• [a] Or "violet"