SEV Biblia, Chapter 3:38
Y los que acamparán delante del tabernáculo al oriente, delante del tabernáculo del testimonio al levante, serán Moisés, y Aarón y sus hijos, teniendo la guarda del santuario por la guarda de los hijos de Israel; y el extraño que se acercare, morirá.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 38. And those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east , etc.] At which was the entrance into the tabernacle: [even] before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward ; that is, before the court of the tabernacle, where the people assembled together: [shall be] Moses, Aaron, and his sons ; Moses the chief ruler, and Aaron the high priest, and his sons priests under him; these had the most honourable place of all, beings at the front of the tabernacle, between that and the camp of Judah. There is an extraordinary prick on the word Aaron, to show, as Jarchi says, that he was not in the number of Levites, though of the tribe of Levi, being high priest: keeping the charge of the sanctuary, for the charge of the children of Israel ; either in their room and stead, which otherwise they must have kept; or rather for their safety and security, keeping out all persons from entering into the sanctuary, who had no business there, that they died not, as it follows: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death ; that is, whoever came nigh to enter into the holy place, and did, who was no priest, though an Israelite, and even a Levite, or into the most holy place, excepting the high priest, it was death unto him, either by the civil magistrate, or by the hand of heaven; so the Targum of Jonathan.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 14-39 - The Levites were in three classes, according to the sons of Levi Gershon, Kohath, and Merari; and these were subdivided into families The posterity of Moses were not at all honoured or privileged, but stood upon the level with other Levites; thus it was plain, that Mose did not seek the advancement of his own family, or to secure an honours to it. The tribe of Levi was by much the least of all the tribes. God's chosen are but a little flock in comparison with the world.
Original Hebrew
והחנים 2583 לפני 6440 המשׁכן 4908 קדמה 6924 לפני 6440 אהל 168 מועד 4150 מזרחה 4217 משׁה 4872 ואהרן 175 ובניו 1121 שׁמרים 8104 משׁמרת 4931 המקדשׁ 4720 למשׁמרת 4931 בני 1121 ישׂראל 3478 והזר 2114 הקרב 7126 יומת׃ 4191
