Numbers 4:8
Ver. 8. And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet,.... Upon the dishes and other vessels belonging to the shewbread table, and on the shewbread itself:
and cover the same with a covering of badgers' skins; this was clearly the outward covering, and seems to confirm the observation made in Nu 4:6; that the same sort of covering was the outermost covering of the ark:
and shall put in the staves thereof; which belonged to the table, and were made to carry it with on occasion, from place to place; see Ex 25:27; and the same phrase being used as here of the staves of the ark in Nu 4:6; seems to confirm the sense of them there, that they were taken out and put in upon this occasion, though otherwise fixed.