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## Numbers 4:6-9 in Context (Verses 3–12 KJV)
 
 [3 ](/kjv/numbers/4/3) From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.
 
 [4 ](/kjv/numbers/4/4) This *shall be* the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, *about* the most holy things:
 
 [5 ](/kjv/numbers/4/5) ¶ And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering vail, and cover the ark of testimony with it:
 
 [6 ](/kjv/numbers/4/6) And shall put thereon the covering of badgers’ skins, and shall spread over *it* a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof.
 
 [7 ](/kjv/numbers/4/7) And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and covers to cover withal: and the continual bread shall be thereon:*
 
 [8 ](/kjv/numbers/4/8) 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.
 
 [9 ](/kjv/numbers/4/9) And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick of the light, and his lamps, and his tongs, and his snuffdishes, and all the oil vessels thereof, wherewith they minister unto it:
 
 [10 ](/kjv/numbers/4/10) And they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put *it* upon a bar.
 
 [11 ](/kjv/numbers/4/11) And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put to the staves thereof:
 
 [12 ](/kjv/numbers/4/12) And they shall take all the instruments of ministry, wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and put *them* in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put *them* on a bar:
 
[Numbers 3](/kjv/numbers/3) [Numbers 5](/kjv/numbers/5)

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