John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 4:8

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, etc.] 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 (<040406>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 <022527>Exodus 25:27,28); and the same phrase being used as here of the staves of the ark in (<040406>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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