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and they shall put on it a covering of [a]porpoise skin (fine leather), and shall spread over that a cloth of pure blue, and shall insert the carrying poles of the ark.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 4:6 The meaning of the Hebrew word is not certain; some scholars have suggested that the material is instead a fine leather of unspecified origin.

Then they are to cover the curtain with a durable leather,[a](A) spread a cloth of solid blue over that and put the poles(B) in place.

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  1. Numbers 4:6 Possibly the hides of large aquatic mammals; also in verses 8, 10, 11, 12, 14 and 25