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Numbers 4:8 KJV
Numbers · chapter 4 · verse 8
And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put in the staves thereof.Numbers 4:8 · King James Version
Numbers 4:8 in context
6And shall put thereon the covering of badgers’ skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof.
7And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and covers to cover withal: and the continual bread shall be thereon:
8And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put in the staves thereof.
9And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick of the light, and his lamps, and his tongs, and his snuffdishes, and all the oil vessels thereof, wherewith they minister unto it:
10And they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put it upon a bar.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- coveringmikçeha coveringH4372 →
- badgers'tachasha animal with fur, probably a species of antelopeH8476 →
- scarlettôwlâʻthe crimson-grub, but used only of the colorfrom it, and cloths dyed therewithH8438 →
- scarletshânîycrimson, properly, the insect or its color, also stuff dyed with itH8144 →
- spreadpârasto break apart, disperse, etcH6566 →
- clothbegeda coveringH899 →
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We have here a second muster of the tribe of Levi. As that tribe was taken out of all Israel to be God's peculiar, so the middle-aged men of that tribe were taken from among the rest to be actually employed in the service of the tabernacle. Now observe, I. Who were to be taken into this number.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-20