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Numbers 4:12-14

King James Version (KJV)

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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.

Numbers 4:12-14 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Numbers 4:12

Theological / Devotional

Instruments of ministry. The instruments, knives, vessels, pans, etc., that were used within the tabernacle. Some commentators refer this expression to the “cloths of service” mentioned in Ex. 31:10.

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