Exodus 28:43

the altar i.e. the altar of burnt-offering: cf. on Exodus 27:1.

the holy place i.e. the sanctuary in general (including the court), as Exodus 36:1; Exodus 36:3-4; Exodus 36:6; not in the special sense of Exodus 26:33; for the altar of burnt-offering did not stand in the Dwelling, but in the court (Exodus 40:6). With to minister, as Exodus 29:30; Exodus 35:19 al.(P); Ezekiel 44:27.

bear iniquity and die, cf. Leviticus 22:16 (H); and on v.35 above.

a statute for ever as Exodus 30:21; Leviticus 6:18; Leviticus 6:22; Leviticus 7:34; Leviticus 10:15; Leviticus 24:9; Numbers 18:8; Numbers 18:11; Numbers 18:19 (all P): cf. on Exodus 12:14 (where the Heb. is ḥuḳḳâh, the fem. of ḥôḳ, the word used here).

and… his seed after him one of P's standing expressions: Genesis 9:9; Genesis 17:7-10; Genesis 17:19; Genesis 35:12; Genesis 48:4; Numbers 25:13.