Numbers 4:6
Good News Translation
They shall put a fine leather cover over it, spread a cloth of solid blue on top, and then insert the carrying poles.

New Revised Standard Version
then they shall put on it a covering of fine leather, and spread over that a cloth all of blue, and shall put its poles in place.

Contemporary English Version
and then with a piece of fine leather, and cover it all with a solid blue cloth. After this they will put the carrying poles in place.

New American Bible
Over these they shall put a cover of yellow-orange skin, and on top of this spread an all-violet cloth and put the poles in place.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

badgers' skins.

Numbers 4:7,8,11-13 They shall wrap up also the table of proposition in a cloth of violet, and shall put with it the censers and little mortars, the cups and bowls to pour out the libations: the loaves shall be always on it: . . .

Exodus 35:19 The vestments that are to be used in the ministry of the sanctuary, the vesture of Aaron the high priest, and of his sons, to do the office of priesthood to me.

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. . . .

Exodus 25:13-15 Thou shalt make bars also of setim wood, and shalt overlay them with gold. . . .

1 Kings 8:7,8 For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and covered the ark, and the staves thereof above. . . .

Context
The Duties of the Kohathites
5When the camp is; to set forward, Aaron and his sons shall go into the tabernacle of the covenant, and the holy of holies, and shall take down the veil that hangeth before the door, and shall wrap up the ark of the testimony in it, 6And 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.7They shall wrap up also the table of proposition in a cloth of violet, and shall put with it the censers and little mortars, the cups and bowls to pour out the libations: the loaves shall be always on it:…
Cross References
Numbers 4:8
And they shall spread over it a cloth of scarlet, which again they shall cover with a covering of violet skins, and shall put in the bars.

Numbers 4:11
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.

Numbers 4:14
And shall put it with all the vessels that they use in the ministry thereof, that is to say, firepans, fleshhooks and forks, pothooks and shovels. They shall cover all the vessels of the altar together with a covering of violet skins, and shall put in the bars.

Numbers 4:25
To carry the curtains of the tabernacle and the roof of the covenant, the other covering, and the violet covering over all, and the hanging that hangeth in the entry of the tabernacle of the covenant,

Deuteronomy 31:9
And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to all the ancients of Israel.

Numbers 4:5
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