Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 18:22
Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.
i.e. So nigh as to do any act proper to the priests or Levites.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
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.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
22. 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 (202) 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.
(202) See margin, A. V. He paraphrases the words of verse 23.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(22) Lest they bear sin and die.i.e., lest they bring sin upon themselves, the penalty of which they would have to bear. This appears to be the primary meaning of the phrase, from which the secondary meaning, viz., that of bearing sin in the sense of atoning for it, is derived. (Comp. Lev. 19:17; Lev. 22:9.)
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
22. Bear sin That is, expiate it, or suffer its penalty, which in this case is death. The Seventy and the Vulgate render it thus: lest they commit a death-bearing sin. See Num 4:18, note; Jas 1:15; 1Jn 5:16.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Num 18:22 Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.
Ver. 22. Neither must the children. ] But only God’s kinsmen, the priests and Levites, as they are called, Lev 10:3 according to some translations, or his nigh ones. So in the New Testament, others are called God’s children, God’s servants, God’s people: ministers only are called God’s men. 1Ti 6:11 2Ti 3:17
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
come nigh: Num 18:7, Num 1:52, Num 3:10, Num 3:38
bear sin: Lev 20:20, Lev 22:9
and die: Heb. to die
Reciprocal: Exo 28:43 – bear not iniquity Num 1:51 – the stranger Num 18:1 – shall bear Num 18:32 – bear Eze 23:35 – therefore 1Pe 2:24 – his own self
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
18:22 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.