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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 (Numbers 4:24 and Numbers 4:25), but one made for the purpose of concealing and sheltering the ark when it was to be carried.

a cloth: Numbers 4:7-8, Numbers 4:11-13; Exodus 35:19, Exodus 39:1, Exodus 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: Exodus 25:13-15; 1 Kings 8:7-8

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