22 Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near the Tent of Meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.
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Neither must the children of Israel. He again inculcates what he had before said, that the Levites were chosen to attend to the sacred things; since God would not admit all the people promiscuously, as before the giving of the Law, when others also offered the sacrifices. But, nevertheless, He strongly charges them that they should be attentive to the performance of their duties, since, if any of them should offend, their crime would be fatal; for so we must understand His words, "they shall bear their iniquity [1] to die:" just as in the next verse He says that they shall be guilty of all the pollutions, for, if the service of God should be defiled by inadvertency, the crime shall be imputed to them.
1 - See margin, A. V. He paraphrases the words of verse 23.
Neither must the children of Israel henceforth (m) come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.
(m) To serve in it: for the Levites are put in their place.
Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation,.... To do any part of the priest's office, as to burn incense, as Korah and his company had done; or to do any part of the work of the Levites, by watching in the tabernacle, by taking it down and setting it up, and bearing the vessels of it; otherwise they might come to it, to bring their sacrifices, to pay their vows, and for their purification when necessary, and such like things:
lest they bear sin and die; lest sin be charged upon them, and punishment be inflicted, even the punishment of death; for it was death to intrude into the priest's office.
Nigh - So nigh as to do any proper act to the priests or Levites.
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