Numbers 4:12

12 And they shall take all the instruments of ministry wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue and cover them with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put them on a carrying pole.

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 the vessels thereof within a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put it upon a carrying pole.
11 And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue and cover it with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put in the staves thereof.
12 And they shall take all the instruments of ministry wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue and cover them with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put them on a carrying pole.
13 And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth thereon;
14 and they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof wherewith they minister about it -- even the censers, the fleshhooks, and the shovels, and the basins, all the vessels of the altar -- and they shall spread upon it a covering of badgers' skins and put in the staves of it.
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