Numbers 4:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Aaron shall come, and his sons... — Under ordinary circumstances the high priest himself might only enter the most holy place on one day in the year. At the time of the moving of the camp, however, the Divine Presence seems to have departed from the Holy of Holies, and to have ascended in the cloud which gave the signal for the removal.

The covering vail. — Better, the vail of the hanging or curtain — viz., that which separated the Holy of Holies from the Holy Place. (Comp. Numbers 3:31.)

Numbers 4:5

5 And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering vail, and cover the ark of testimony with it: