Numbers 4:11
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New International Version (©2011)
"Over the gold altar they are to spread a blue cloth and cover that with the durable leather and put the poles in place.

New Living Translation (©2007)
"Next they must spread a blue cloth over the gold incense altar and cover this cloth with fine goatskin leather. Then they must attach the carrying poles to the altar.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And over the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue and cover it with a covering of goatskin, and shall put in its poles.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Over the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth and cover it with a covering of porpoise skin, and shall insert its poles;

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
They are to spread a blue cloth over the gold altar, cover it with a covering made of manatee skin, and insert its poles.

International Standard Version (©2012)
"On the golden altar, they are to spread a blue cloth, cover it with a leather-dyed skin covering, and then insert its poles.

NET Bible (©2006)
"They must spread a blue cloth on the gold altar, and cover it with a covering of fine leather; and they must insert its poles.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
"They will spread a violet cloth over the gold altar and cover the cloth with fine leather. Then they will put the poles in place.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badger skins, and shall put in its poles:

American King James Version
And on 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:

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:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they shall wrap up the golden altar also in a cloth of violet, and shall spread over it a cover of violet skins, and put in the bars.

Darby Bible Translation
And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers' skin, and shall put its staves to it.

English Revised 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:

Webster's Bible Translation
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 it its staffs.

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.

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;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

4:4-20 The Kohathites were to carry the holy things of the tabernacle. All the holy things were to be covered; not only for security and respect, but to keep them from being seen. This not only marked the reverence due to holy things, but the mystery of the things signified by those types, and the darkness of the dispensation. But now, through Christ, the case is altered, and we are encouraged to come boldly to the throne of grace.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue,.... The altar of incense, which was overlaid with gold, and therefore called a golden one, to which the allusion is in Revelation 8:3,

and cover it with a covering of badgers' skins; after the cloth of blue was spread upon it:

and shall put to the staves thereof; into the rings, both made to bear and carry it, upon occasion, from place to place.

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Duties of the Kohathites
…10And they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put it on a bar. 11And on 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: 12And they shall take all the instruments of ministry, with which 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: …

Revelation 8:3 Another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, with the prayers of all God's people, on the golden altar in front of the throne.
Numbers 4:6 Then they are to cover the curtain with a durable leather, spread a cloth of solid blue over that and put the poles in place.
Numbers 4:10 Then they are to wrap it and all its accessories in a covering of the durable leather and put it on a carrying frame.
Numbers 4:12 "They are to take all the articles used for ministering in the sanctuary, wrap them in a blue cloth, cover that with the durable leather and put them on a carrying frame.