SEV Biblia, Chapter 4:20
No entrarán para ver, cuando cubrieren las cosas santas; porque morirán.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Numbers 4:20
Verse 20. When the holy things are covered] Literally, [lbk keballa, when they are swallowed down; which shows the promptitude with which every thing belonging to the holy of holies was put out of sight, for these mysteries must ever be treated with the deepest reverence; and indeed without this they could not have been to them the representatives of heavenly realities. See the concluding note
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 20. But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered , etc.] They were not to be present while they were packing up, test they should see any of them with their eyes; they were not to go in until they were quite covered out of sight; which may signify the hiding of the mysteries of grace in those things under the former dispensation, when even the Levites themselves were not admitted to a sight of them; (see Ephesians 3:4,5); lest they die ; by the immediate hand of God.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 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 cas is altered, and we are encouraged to come boldly to the throne of grace.
Original Hebrew
ולא 3808 יבאו 935 לראות 7200 כבלע 1104 את 853 הקדשׁ 6944 ומתו׃ 4191
