wholly of blue - Compare Exodus 25:4 (see note). The third and external covering of the ark only was to be of this color. The table of showb…

And shall put in the staves thereof. —The staves had been removed while the Ark was being covered; otherwise they remaine…

These Kohathites were not permitted to handle the ark directly when they transported it; much less were they ever to look at it. But the priests, t…

And shall put thereon the covering of badgers' skins
Not that which covered the tabernacle, for that was committed t…

The Kohathites were to carry the holy things of the tabernacle. All the holy things were to be covered; not only for security and respect, but to k…