Numbers 4:15
And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as the camp is to set forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to bear it: but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation.
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Gill's Exposition
And to the office of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest,
pertaineth the oil for the light,.... The following things, to bear them, according to some Jewish writers; but rather it was to give the…
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…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
they shall not touch the sanctuary Better the holy things, as in R.V. marg. The Heb. word is strictly a singular abstract substantive, -the sacredness," which is here employed to denote the whole…
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