New Revised Standard Version
They shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth over it;

Contemporary English Version
They are to remove the ashes from the bronze altar and cover it with a purple cloth.

New American Bible
After cleansing the altar of its ashes, they shall spread a purple cloth over it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They shall cleanse the altar also from the ashes, and shall wrap it up in a purple cloth,

They shall cleanse the altar also from the ashes, and shall wrap it up in a purple cloth,

Numbers 4:6-9,11,12 And shall cover it again with a cover of violet skins, and shall spread over it a cloth all of violet, and shall put in the bars. . . .

Exodus 27:3-5 And thou shalt make for the uses thereof pans to receive the ashes, and tongs and fleshhooks, and firepans: all its vessels thou shalt make of brass. . . .

Exodus 39:1,41 And he made, of violet and purple, scarlet and fine linen, the vestments for Aaron to wear when he ministered in the holy places, as the Lord commanded Moses. . . .

Leviticus 6:12,13 And the fire on the altar shall always burn, and the priest shall feed it, putting wood on it every day in the morning: and laying on the holocaust, shall burn thereupon the fat of the peace offerings. . . .