John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 2. And to thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father , etc.] For his father Amram was of that tribe, and so the Levites were his brethren, as he is directed to consider them; which might serve to conciliate their minds, and make them easy with respect to his enjoyment of the priesthood: bring them with thee ; into the court of the tabernacle, for further they might not go: that they maybe joined unto thee : as their name of Levites signifies, persons joined and united to others, as they were to the priests: see reason of their patriarch’s name Levi in ( Genesis 29:34); and minister unto thee : be assisting to the priests in killing the sacrifices, receiving the blood, and flaying the beasts, and in other things about the sanctuary, ( Numbers 3:6); but thou, and thy sons with thee, [shall minister] before the tabernacle of witness ; which was the most holy place, where were the ark of the testimony or witness, and the tables of the covenant; and they might be said to minister before that, when they ministered in the holy place, which was before it, when they burned incense upon the altar of incense, ordered the shewbread, and trimmed the lamps of the candlestick, which none but the priests the sons of Aaron might do.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-7 - The people complained of their difficulty and peril in drawing near to God. God here gives them to understand, that the priests should com near for them. Aaron would see reason not to be proud of his preferment, when he considered the great care and charge upon him. Be not high-minded, but fear. The greater the trust of work and power tha is committed to us, the greater danger there is of betraying tha trust. This is a good reason why we should neither envy others honours, nor desire high places.
Original Hebrew וגם1571 את853 אחיך251 מטה4294 לוי3878 שׁבט7626 אביך1 הקרב7126 אתך854 וילוו3867 עליך5921 וישׁרתוך8334 ואתה859 ובניך1121 אתך854 לפני6440 אהל168 העדת׃5715
