Numbers - 4:10



10 They shall put it and all its vessels within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it on the frame.

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Explanation and meaning of Numbers 4:10.

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And they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put it upon a bar.
And over all they shall put a cover of violet skins and put in the bars.
and they shall put it and all the utensils thereof within a covering of badgers' skin, and shall put it upon a pole.
and they have put it and all its vessels unto a covering of badger skin, and have put it on the bar.
All these they are to put in a leather cover, and put it on the frame.
And they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it upon a bar.
And over all this they shall place a covering of violet skins, and they shall draw in the bars.
Ponentque illud cum omnibus vasis ejus in opertorio pellis taxaeae, et portent super vectes ejus.

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And they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put [it] upon a (e) bar.
(e) The Hebrew word signifies an instrument made of two staves or bars.

And they shall put it, and all the vessels thereof, within a covering of badgers' skins,.... Which here also was the outermost covering; the ark and the shewbread table had three coverings, but the candlestick only two, they being more sacred than that, especially the ark:
and shall put it upon a bar; the word "mot" perhaps signifies a kind of mat or mattress, on which the candlestick and its vessels, bundled together in the covering of the badgers' skins, were laid and carried between men on staves; and so the Septuagint render the word "staves"; as does the Targum of Onkelos.

a bar--or bier, formed of two poles fastened by two cross pieces and borne by two men, after the fashion of a sedan chair.

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