The Levites Who Bore the Holy Things (Numbers 10:21)
‘And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the holy things, and the others set up the tabernacle in readiness for their coming.'
Next came the remainder of the Korathites bearing all ‘the holy things' apart from the Ark which led the march (Numbers 10:35-36). By the time they arrived at the next camp the Dwellingplace would have been erected by the other Levites. The holy things were the furniture of the Dwellingplace, apart from the Ark which led the way in its magnificent blue covering. These were the altar of incense, the table of showbread, the golden lampstand and the brazen altar, all discreetly hidden and weather-protected beneath dolphin skins.