John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 4:11

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, etc.] The altar of incense, which was overlaid with gold, and therefore called a golden one, to which the allusion is in (<660803>Revelation 8:3); and cover it with a covering of badgers’ skins; after the cloth of blue was spread upon it: and shall put to the staves thereof; into the rings, both made to bear and carry it, upon occasion, from place to place.

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