Numbers 18:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest's office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest's office unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

Therefore thou

Numbers 18:5

Numbers 3:10

Within

Leviticus 16:2

Hebrews 9:3

As a service

The stranger

Numbers 18:4

Numbers 3:38

Numbers 16:40

General references

Numbers 3:9

Numbers 17:3

Psalm 115:10

Bible References

Therefore thou

So you shall attend to the obligations of the sanctuary and the obligations of the altar, so that there will no longer be wrath on the sons of Israel.

So you shall appoint Aaron and his sons that they may keep their priesthood, but the layman who comes near shall be put to death.”

Within

The Lord said to Moses:“Tell your brother Aaron that he shall not enter at any time into the holy place inside the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark, or he will die; for I will appear in the cloud over the mercy seat.

Behind the second veil there was a tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,

As a service

and he spoke to Korah and all his company, saying, “Tomorrow morning the Lord will show who is His, and who is holy, and will bring him near to Himself; even the one whom He will choose, He will bring near to Himself.

Did I not choose them from all the tribes of Israel to be My priests, to go up to My altar, to burn incense, to carry an ephod before Me; and did I not give to the house of your father all the fire offerings of the sons of Israel?

John answered and said, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.

But I have written very boldly to you on some points so as to remind you again, because of the grace that was given me from God,

To me, the very least of all saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ,

And no one takes the honor to himself, but receives it when he is called by God, even as Aaron was.

The stranger

They shall be joined with you and attend to the obligations of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the tent; but an outsider may not come near you.

Now those who were to camp before the tabernacle eastward, before the tent of meeting toward the sunrise, are Moses and Aaron and his sons, performing the duties of the sanctuary for the obligation of the sons of Israel; but the layman coming near was to be put to death.

as a reminder to the sons of Israel that no layman who is not of the descendants of Aaron should come near to burn incense before the Lord; so that he will not become like Korah and his company—just as the Lord had spoken to him through Moses.

General references

You shall thus give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons; they are wholly given to him from among the sons of Israel.

and write Aaron’s name on the rod of Levi; for there is one rod for the head of each of their fathers’ households.

O house of Aaron, trust in the Lord;
He is their help and their shield.