KJV King James Version
And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put to the staves thereof:
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Numbers 4:11
And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put to the staves thereof:
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Over the gold altar they are to spread a blue cloth, cover it with fine leather, and insert the poles.
WEB World English Bible
“On the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.
ASV American Standard Version
And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in the staves thereof:
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
‘And on the golden altar they spread a garment of blue, and have covered it with a covering of badger skin, and have placed its staves;
Surrounding context — Numbers 4
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.
9 And 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:
10 And they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put [it] upon a bar.
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 to 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 bar:
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 basons, all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of badgers’ skins, and put to the staves of it.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וְעַ֣ל׀H5921 · aluponמִזְבַּ֣חH4196 · miz.be.achaltarהַזָּהָ֗בH2091 · za.havgoldיִפְרְשׂוּ֙H6566 · pa.ra.sto spreadבֶּ֣גֶדH899 · be.gedtreacheryתְּכֵ֔לֶתH8504 · te.khe.letblueוְכִסּ֣וּH3680 · ka.sahto coverאֹת֔וֹH853 · et[Obj.]בְּמִכְסֵ֖הH4372 · mikh.sehcoveringע֣וֹרH5785 · orskinתָּ֑חַשׁH8476 · ta.chashleatherוְשָׂמ֖וּH7760 · sumto set: makeאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]בַּדָּֽיו׃H905 · badalone: pole
Cross-references
Exodus 40:5And thou shalt set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the hanging of the door to the tabernacle.Exodus 40:26-27And he put the golden altar in the tent of the congregation before the vail:Exodus 39:38And the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the tabernacle door,Exodus 37:25-28And he made the incense altar [of] shittim wood: the length of it [was] a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit; [it was] foursquare; and two cubits [was] the height of it; the horns thereof were of the same.Exodus 30:1-19And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: [of] shittim wood shalt thou make it.
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