They shall join you and keep guard over the tent of meeting for all the service of the tent, and no outsider shall come near you.
The coherence of this chapter with that foregoing is very observable. I. The people, in the close of that chapter, had complained of the difficulty and peril that there were in drawing near to God, which put them under some dreadful apprehensions that the tabernacle in the midst of them, which they hoped would have been their joy and glory, would rather be their terror and ruin.
Commenting on Numbers 18:1-7
And they shall be joined unto thee,.... As assistants in the sacred service: and keep the charge of tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle; See Gill on Num 3:7 and See Gill on Num 3:8, and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you; not any of the other tribes, only such as were of the tribe of Levi; they...
And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you. (c) Which was not of the tribe of Levi.