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Numbers 4:25

King James Version (KJV)

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Scripture focus

And they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tabernacle of the congregation, his covering, and the covering of the badgers’ skins that [is] above upon it, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,

Numbers 4:25 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Numbers 4:25

Theological / Devotional

Curtains. That is, to the ten curtains that were the inner covering of the tabernacle (Ex. 26:1, 2).

Tabernacle. The boards of the tabernacle were in charge of the Merarites (v. 31), but the 11 curtains of goats’ hair which covered them are here referred to (see Ex. 26:7, 8).

Badgers’ skins. The outermost covering of all (Ex. 26:14; see on Ex. 25:5).

Hanging for the door. See on Ex. 26:36.

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