For upon this necessary occasion the inferior priests are allowed to come into the holy of holies, which otherwise was peculiar to the high priest, Heb_9:7.
The covering veil; the second veil; of which see Exo_26:31, &c. Lev_4:6Heb_9:3; where, with the ark was covered while the tabernacle stood, Exo_40:3. And
cover the ark; because the Levites, who were to carry the ark, might neither see nor immediately touch it.