Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge on Numbers 4:6

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badgers' skins: This was not the covering of badgers' skins made for the tabernacle, which was carried by the Gershonites ( Num 4:24 and Num 4:25), but one made for the purpose of concealing and sheltering the ark when it was to be carried. a cloth: Num 4:7, Num 4:8, Num 4:11-13; Exo 35:19, Exo 39:1, Exo 39:41 and shall put: Wesamoo baddaiv, rather, "and adjust the staves thereof;" i.e., dispose them rightly under the covering, that they might be laid on their shoulders. for the staves were never taken out of the rings. the staves: Exo 25:13-15; Kg1 8:7, Kg1 8:8 Numbers 4:7

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