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New American Standard Bible (1995)

Numbers 4:8

"They shall spread over them a cloth of scarlet material, and cover the same with a covering of porpoise skin, and they shall insert its poles.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Altar;   Badger;   Colors;   Levites;   Priest;   Skin;   Tabernacle;   Thompson Chain Reference - Scarlet;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Levites, the;   Priests;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Kohath;   Levites;   Purple;   Tabernacle;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Skin, Coats Made of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Badger;   Levites;   Priest;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Badger Skins;   Crimson;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Kohath, Kohathites;   Moses;   Numbers, Book of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Badgers' Skins;   Cloth;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Table;   Uzzah;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Koliath;   Tabernacle;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Priest;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Badger;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Priesthood, the;   Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Color;   Cover;   Porpoise;   Shewbread, the;   Skin;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Badger;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ark of the Covenant;   Showbread;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
They shall spread on them a scarlet cloth, and cover the same with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.
King James Version
And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put in the staves thereof.
Lexham English Bible
They will spread over it a scarlet cloth, and they will cover it with a covering of fine leather, and they will place its poles.
New Century Version
Then they must put a red cloth over all of these things, cover everything with fine leather, and put the poles in place.
New English Translation
They must spread over them a scarlet cloth, and cover the same with a covering of fine leather; and they must insert its poles.
Amplified Bible
"They shall spread over them a cloth of scarlet, and cover that with a covering of porpoise skin, and they shall insert its carrying poles.
New American Standard Bible
"And they shall spread over them a cloth of scarlet material, and cover the same with a covering of fine leather, and they shall insert its carrying poles.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And they shal spread vpon them a couering of skarlet, and couer the same with a couering of badgers skinnes, and put to the barres thereof.
Legacy Standard Bible
And they shall spread over them a cloth of scarlet material and cover the same with a covering of porpoise skin, and they shall insert its poles.
Contemporary English Version
They are to cover all of this with a bright red cloth, and then with a piece of fine leather, before putting the carrying poles in place.
Complete Jewish Bible
They are to spread on these things a scarlet cloth, cover them with a covering of fine leather and insert the poles.
Darby Translation
And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover it with a covering of badgers' skin, and shall put its staves [to it].
Easy-to-Read Version
Then you must put a red cloth over all these things, cover everything with fine leather, and put the poles in the rings of the table.
English Standard Version
Then they shall spread over them a cloth of scarlet and cover the same with a covering of goatskin, and shall put in its poles.
George Lamsa Translation
And they shall spread thereon a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of badgers skins, and shall put in the poles thereof.
Good News Translation
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Christian Standard Bible®
They are to spread a scarlet cloth over them, cover them with a covering made of fine leather, and insert the poles in the table.
Literal Translation
And they shall spread a cloth of scarlet over them, and shall cover it with a covering of dugong skin, and shall put in its staves.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and they shall sprede a purple clothe ther ouer, and couer it with a couerynge of doo skynnes, and put the staues of it therin.
American Standard Version
and they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in the staves thereof.
Bible in Basic English
And over them they are to put a red cloth, covering it with a leather cover, and putting its rods in their places.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they shall spreade vpon them a couering of skarlet, and couer the same with a couering of Badgers skinnes, and put in the barres thereof.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of sealskin, and shall set the staves thereof.
King James Version (1611)
And they shall spread vpon them a clothe of scarlet, and couer the same with a couering of badgers skinnes, and shall put in the staues thereof.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they shall put upon it a scarlet cloth, and they shall cover it with a blue covering of skin, and they shall put the staves into it.
English Revised Version
and they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in the staves thereof.
Berean Standard Bible
And they shall spread a scarlet cloth over them, cover them with fine leather, and insert the poles.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei schulen strecche forth aboue a reed mentil, which thei schulen hile eft with an hilyng of `skynnes of iacynt, and thei schulen putte yn barris.
Young's Literal Translation
and they have spread over them a garment of scarlet, and have covered it with a covering of badger skin, and have placed its staves,
Update Bible Version
and they shall spread on them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in the poles thereof.
Webster's Bible Translation
And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put in the staffs of it.
World English Bible
They shall spread on them a scarlet cloth, and cover the same with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.
New King James Version
They shall spread over them a scarlet cloth, and cover the same with a covering of badger skins; and they shall insert its poles.
New Living Translation
They must spread a scarlet cloth over all of this, and finally a covering of fine goatskin leather on top of the scarlet cloth. Then they must insert the carrying poles into the table.
New Life Bible
They will spread a red cloth over them, and cover that with badgers' skins. And they will put in its long pieces of wood to carry it.
New Revised Standard
then they shall spread over them a crimson cloth, and cover it with a covering of fine leather, and shall put its poles in place.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and they shall spread over them a wrapper of crimson, and cover the same with a covering of badgers skin, - and shall put in the staves thereof.
Douay-Rheims Bible
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.
Revised Standard Version
then they shall spread over them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of goatskin, and shall put in its poles.

Contextual Overview

1 Then the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 2 "Take a census of the descendants of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers' households, 3 from thirty years and upward, even to fifty years old, all who enter the service to do the work in the tent of meeting. 4 "This is the work of the descendants of Kohath in the tent of meeting, concerning the most holy things. 5 "When the camp sets out, Aaron and his sons shall go in and they shall take down the veil of the screen and cover the ark of the testimony with it; 6 and they shall lay a covering of porpoise skin on it, and shall spread over it a cloth of pure blue, and shall insert its poles. 7 "Over the table of the bread of the Presence they shall also spread a cloth of blue and put on it the dishes and the pans and the sacrificial bowls and the jars for the drink offering, and the continual bread shall be on it. 8 "They shall spread over them a cloth of scarlet material, and cover the same with a covering of porpoise skin, and they shall insert its poles.9 "Then they shall take a blue cloth and cover the lampstand for the light, along with its lamps and its snuffers, and its trays and all its oil vessels, by which they serve it; 10 and they shall put it and all its utensils in a covering of porpoise skin, and shall put it on the carrying bars.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 4:6, Numbers 4:7, Numbers 4:9, Numbers 4:11-13

Reciprocal: Exodus 25:13 - General Joshua 2:18 - scarlet thread Song of Solomon 4:3 - scarlet

Cross-References

Genesis 4:3
So it came about in the course of time that Cain brought an offering to the LORD of the fruit of the ground.
Genesis 4:6
Then the LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen?
Genesis 4:9
Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" And he said, "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?"
Genesis 4:10
He said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to Me from the ground.
Genesis 4:12
"When you cultivate the ground, it will no longer yield its strength to you; you will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth."
Genesis 4:15
So the LORD said to him, "Therefore whoever kills Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold." And the LORD appointed a sign for Cain, so that no one finding him would slay him.
Genesis 4:24
If Cain is avenged sevenfold, Then Lamech seventy-sevenfold."
Genesis 4:26
To Seth, to him also a son was born; and he called his name Enosh. Then men began to call upon the name of the LORD.
2 Samuel 3:27
So when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him privately, and there he struck him in the belly so that he died on account of the blood of Asahel his brother.
2 Samuel 14:6
"Your maidservant had two sons, but the two of them struggled together in the field, and there was no one to separate them, so one struck the other and killed him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet,.... Upon the dishes and other vessels belonging to the shewbread table, and on the shewbread itself:

and cover the same with a covering of badgers' skins; this was clearly the outward covering, and seems to confirm the observation made in Numbers 4:6; that the same sort of covering was the outermost covering of the ark:

and shall put in the staves thereof; which belonged to the table, and were made to carry it with on occasion, from place to place; see

Exodus 25:27; and the same phrase being used as here of the staves of the ark in Numbers 4:6; seems to confirm the sense of them there, that they were taken out and put in upon this occasion, though otherwise fixed.


 
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