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 10:1-2; 1Sa 6:19; 2Sa 6:6-7; Jer 38:23