4:18 {l} Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites:
(l) Committing by your negligence that the holy things are not well wrapped, causing them to perish by touching it.
4:18 Cut not off - Do not by your neglect provoke God to cut them off for touching the holy things.
4:4-20 The Kohathites were to carry the holy things of the tabernacle. All the holy things were to be covered; not only for security and respect, but to keep them from being seen. This not only marked the reverence due to holy things, but the mystery of the things signified by those types, and the darkness of the dispensation. But now, through Christ, the case is altered, and we are encouraged to come boldly to the throne of grace.
