Numbers 18:3 - Exposition

They shall keep thy charge, &c.; See on Numbers 3:7 , Numbers 3:8 . That neither they, nor ye also , die. This warning does not seem to refer to the danger of the Kohathites seeing the sacred things ( Numbers 4:15 ), but of the other Levites coming near them; the further warning, "nor ye also," is added because if the carelessness or profanity of the priest led to sacrilege and death in the case of the Levite, it would be laid to his charge (cf. Numbers 4:18 ).