1-9. I take these verses to be all a parenthesis, and verse 10 to connect directly with chapter 9: 29, showing that after the apostasy of Israel, the law (but now in the ark), the priesthood, and a land of rivers of waters, and levitical service with no inheritance but the Lord, was set up a system of patient grace in Israel. The death of Aaron showed, through Eleazar taking his place, that the priesthood continued, as did the service of Levi in the land which is the subject of this book, not merely in the wilderness in which all this was set up.
1-11, takes up the standing of the restored people. The basis of it all is laid in Ex. 34:1-9, which stands by itself; passing on (verse 28) to Moses, with the people—a mediatorial condition and government, see verse 27.
6, 7. Compare Num. 33:37, 38. There is no difficulty here.