Numbers 4:11-13

New Catholic Bible

¹¹ They will spread a blue cloth upon the golden altar and cover it with a covering of sheep skins and put its poles in it.^{[a] 12} Then they are to take all the implements with which they minister in the sanctuary, and they are to cover them with a blue cloth and with a covering of sheep skin and put them on a litter. ¹³ They are to empty all the ashes^[b] out from the altar and spread a purple cloth on it.