Matthew Poole and continuators on Numbers 4:14

14 And they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof wherewith they minister about it, even the censers, the flesh-hooks, and the shovels, and the basins, all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of badgersskins, and put to the staves of it.

Amongst all these vessels here and abovenamed there is no mention of the brazen laver, though that be elsewhere reckoned among the holy things, as Exod. 35. 16. and 38. 8. and 39. 39. and 40. 30. whereof possibly the reason may be because it was not covered, as not being capable of much hurt by the weather. Though some antient translations of the Bible do here adde these words. They shall take a purple covering, and cover the laver, &c.

Marginal references: Or, bowls.