Now these things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services,
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 6. The rites of the sacrifices. The priests, as he tells us, entered every day, that is, by turns, (see Luke 1:5) to make the offering of incense morning and night, also to change the loaves, take care of the lamps, and so forth But we must not think that they offered in that place victims or holocausts of sheep, lambs, oxen, and so forth This was not done in any part of the sanctuary, neither before nor after the building of the temple, but in a place or court adjoining the tabernacle, upon a large altar of five cubits long and as many broad. See Exod. 27 and 38. Witham.