Then they shall wrap it and all its utensils inside a covering of fine leather and put it on the carrying frame.
We have here a second muster of the tribe of Levi. As that tribe was taken out of all Israel to be God's peculiar, so the middle-aged men of that tribe were taken from among the rest to be actually employed in the service of the tabernacle. Now observe, I. Who were to be taken into this number. All the males from thirty years old to fifty.
Commenting on Numbers 4:1-20
And they shall put it, and all the vessels thereof, within a covering of badgers' skins,.... Which here also was the outermost covering; the ark and the shewbread table had three coverings, but the candlestick only two, they being more sacred than that, especially the ark: and shall put it upon a bar; the word "mot" perhaps signifies a kind of mat or mattress, on...
a bar--or bier, formed of two poles fastened by two cross pieces and borne by two men, after the fashion of a sedan chair.