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Numbers 4:14

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and place on it all the vessels used to serve there: the firepans, meat forks, shovels, and sprinkling bowls—all the equipment of the altar. They are to spread over it a covering of fine leather and insert the poles.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof, wherewith they minister about it, the firepans, the flesh-hooks, and the shovels, and the basins, all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of sealskin, and put in the staves thereof.

KJV

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.

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This verse in Numbers 4

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

cover the candlestick of the light

on Numbers 4:9-14

The packing runs outward from the ark: the table, then the candlestick, then the golden altar of incense, then the ministering vessels, then the brasen altar out in the court. The candlestick and the loose instruments go on a bar, because only the ark, the table and the two altars were built with rings and staves of their own. Matthew Henry reads verse 13 as a purple cloth spread over ashes in which the holy fire was banked and preserved, so the fire that Leviticus 6:12-13 forbade to go out kept burning while the altar moved. Blue, purple and scarlet are the three colours of the tabernacle hangings at Exodus 26:1, and here they are the colours of its packing.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

But when the cloud removed from the tabernacle, the sanctuary might be entered by the common priests, as to them was reserved the exclusive privilege of packing the sacred utensils; and it was not till the holy things were thus ready for carriage, that the Kohathites were allowed to approach.

The words behind it

27 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְנָתְנ֣וּand they will put

    venatenuH5414 →2011 times

  • עָ֠לָיוon it

    ʾalavH5921 →5755 times

  • אֶֽת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • כֵּלָ֞יוarticles its

    kelavH3627 →325 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • יְֽשָׁרְת֧וּthey will serve

    yesharetuH8334 →97 times

  • עָלָ֣יוat it

    ʾalavH5921 →5755 times

  • בָּהֶ֗םby <the> them

    bahem

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַמַּחְתֹּ֤תthe fire-pans

    hamachtotH4289 →22 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַמִּזְלָגֹת֙the forks

    hamizlagotH4207 →

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • הַיָּעִ֣יםthe shovels

    haiyaimH3257 →

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • הַמִּזְרָקֹ֔תthe bowls

    hamizrakotH4219 →32 times

  • כֹּ֖לall

    kolH3605 →5413 times

  • כְּלֵ֣י[the] articles of

    keleiH3627 →325 times

  • הַמִּזְבֵּ֑חַthe altar

    hamizbeachH4196 →401 times

  • וּפָרְשׂ֣וּand they will spread out

    ufaresuH6566 →67 times

  • עָלָ֗יוover it

    ʾalavH5921 →5755 times

  • כְּס֛וּיa covering of

    kesuiH3681 →

  • ע֥וֹרskin of

    orH5785 →99 times

  • תַּ֖חַשׁdolphin

    tachashH8476 →14 times

  • וְשָׂמ֥וּand they will put in

    vesamuH7760 →584 times

  • בַדָּֽיו׃poles its

    vadavH905 →200 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

6 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Jeremiah 52:18They also took away the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes, and all the articles of bronze used in the temple service.4 worksExodus 38:1–7Bezalel constructed the altar of burnt offering from acacia wood. It was square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.3 works2 Chronicles 4:19Solomon also made all the furnishings for the house of God: the golden altar; the tables on which was placed the Bread of the Presence;2 worksExodus 25:13And make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.2 worksExodus 27:3Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots for removing ashes, its shovels, its sprinkling bowls, its meat forks, and its firepans.2 worksZechariah 14:20On that day, HOLY TO THE LORD will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, and the cooking pots in the house of the LORD will be like the sprinkling bowls before the altar.2 works

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 4:19

    Solomon also made all the furnishings for the house of God: the golden altar; the tables on which was placed the Bread of the Presence;

    it leads to

    • Revelation 9:13

      Then the sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God

    • Exodus 25:23–30

      You are also to make a table of acacia wood two cubits long, a cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high.

    • 2 Kings 24:13

      As the LORD had declared, Nebuchadnezzar also carried off all the treasures from the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he cut into pieces all the gold articles that Solomon king…

    • Leviticus 24:5–8

      You are also to take fine flour and bake twelve loaves, using two-tenths of an ephah for each loaf,

    • Exodus 37:25–29

      He made the altar of incense out of acacia wood. It was square, a cubit long, a cubit wide, and two cubits high. Its horns were of one piece.

Where this verse is studied

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Studies1

About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 4 →

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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