Numbers 4:8
Good News Translation
They shall spread a red cloth over all of this, put a fine leather cover over it, and then insert the carrying poles.

New Revised Standard Version
then they shall spread over them a crimson cloth, and cover it with a covering of fine leather, and shall put its poles in place.

Contemporary English Version
They are to cover all of this with a bright red cloth, and then with a piece of fine leather, before putting the carrying poles in place.

New American Bible
Over these they shall spread a scarlet cloth and cover it with a covering of yellow-orange skin, and put the poles in place.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they shall spread over it a cloth of scarlet, which again they shall cover with a covering of violet skins, and shall put in the bars.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they shall spread over it a cloth of scarlet, which again they shall cover with a covering of violet skins, and shall put in the bars.

Numbers 4:6,7,9,11-13 And shall cover it again with a cover of violet skins, and shall spread over it a cloth all of violet, and shall put in the bars. . . .

Context
The Duties of the Kohathites
7They shall wrap up also the table of proposition in a cloth of violet, and shall put with it the censers and little mortars, the cups and bowls to pour out the libations: the loaves shall be always on it: 8And they shall spread over it a cloth of scarlet, which again they shall cover with a covering of violet skins, and shall put in the bars.9They shall take also a cloth of violet wherewith they shall cover the candlestick with the lamps and tongs thereof and the snuffers and all the oil vessels, which are necessary for the dressing of the lamps:…
Cross References
Exodus 25:5
And rams' skins dyed red, and violet skins, and setim wood:

Numbers 4:6
And shall cover it again with a cover of violet skins, and shall spread over it a cloth all of violet, and shall put in the bars.

Numbers 4:7
They shall wrap up also the table of proposition in a cloth of violet, and shall put with it the censers and little mortars, the cups and bowls to pour out the libations: the loaves shall be always on it:

Numbers 4:9
They shall take also a cloth of violet wherewith they shall cover the candlestick with the lamps and tongs thereof and the snuffers and all the oil vessels, which are necessary for the dressing of the lamps:

Numbers 4:7
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