But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die.
Ver. 20. But they shall not go in to see.] The men of Bethshemesh paid for their peeping. 1Sa 6:9 Search not into God's secrets: hic oportet mirari, non rimari Deu 29:29 Remember that saying of Xenocrates the philosopher: Nihil interesse, pedesne quisquam, an oculos in aliena domo ponat, a It is as great unmannerliness to pry into another man's house as to press into it.
a Plutarch, De Curiosit.