Numbers 4:20
But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon,.... As well as of the sons of Kohath; for though Gershon was Levi's eldest son, yet his posterity were not excused from the service of the tabernacle, and…
Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
Barnes' Notes
to see when the holy things are covered - Render: to see the holy things for an instant. The expression means Iiterally” as a gulp,” i. e. for the instant it takes to swallow.
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…
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