Holy Scripture

Numbers 4:6

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“Why did God command that some of the sacred vessels should be covered with blue veils and others with purple veils?Only the veils of the more precious vessels were blue. The color suggests the sky. For this reason God commanded the objects behind the veil to be covered with blue tapestry but the objects outside it wit…”
Theodoret of Cyrus, 5th c. — QUESTIONS ON NUMBERS 6

Source: Septuagint

Original

6And they shall put on it a cover, even a blue skin, and put on it above a garment all of blue, and shall put the staffs through the rings.

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4And these are the works of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of witness; it is most holy.

5And Aaron and his sons shall go in, when the camp is about to move, and shall take down the shadowing veil, and shall cover with it the ark of the testimony.

— Numbers 4:6 —

7And they shall put on the table set forth for showbread a cloth all of purple, and the dishes, and the censers, and the cups, and the vessels with which one offers drink offerings; and the continual loaves shall be upon it.

8And they shall put upon it a scarlet cloth, and they shall cover it with a blue covering of skin, and they shall put the staffs into it.

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