Keep your priest’s office. God’s workers should be proud of their office and service in the Lord’s work, and ever keep them inviolate before God.
The altar, and within the vail. These words are in explanation of the expression “your priest’s office.” The priests were to offer the sacrifices at the brazen altar in the courtyard and to perform all the sacred duties within the sanctuary itself, such as offering the incense, arranging the shewbread, trimming and lighting the lamps, as well as other duties related to such solemn occasions as the Day of Atonement.
The stranger. That is, anyone other than a priest. Such should not presume to approach the tabernacle with the intention of performing any priestly function.