Numbers 18:22 (BSB)

No longer may the Israelites come near to the Tent of Meeting, or they will incur guilt and die.

From Numbers 18. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 18:22

• John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Numbers 18:22: 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.
• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 18:20-32: Here is a further account of the provision that was made both for the Levites and for the priests, out of the country. I. They must have no inheritance in the land; only cities to dwell in were afterwards allowed them, but no ground to occupy: Thou shalt not have any part among them, Num 18:20.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 18:22: But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation,.... In guarding the tabernacle, that no unclean persons enter into it, or any others take anything out of it, and in assisting the priests in their service, and carrying the vessels of the sanctuary when required: and they shall bear their iniquity: that is, when they fail in the duty of their...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Numbers 18:21-32: THE LEVITES' PORTION. (Num 18:21-32) I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve--Neither the priests nor the Levites were to possess any allotments of land but to depend entirely upon Him who liberally provided for them out of His own portion; and this law was subservient to many important purposes--such as that...