Eleazar and the priests would be chargeable with the death of the Kohathites, if they failed to give them proper cautions and directions; or permitted them to gaze with irreverence or curiosity upon the holy things, which they might carry, but not see - Num 4:20. Num 16:32, Num 17:10, Num 18:5, Exo 19:21, Lev 10:1, Lev 10:2, 1Sa 6:19, 2Sa 6:6, 2Sa 6:7, Jer 38:23