Numbers 4:20
but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die.
In Context
21And LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Cross References
Exodus 19:21And LORD said to Moses, Go down, command the people, lest they break through to LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.
Numbers 1:51And when the tabernacle sets forward, the Levites shall take it down, and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up. And the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.
Numbers 4:19but thus do to them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach to the most holy things. Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint for them each one to his service and to his burden,
1 Samuel 6:19And he smote of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of LORD. He smote of the people fifty thousand and seventy men. And the people mourned, because LORD had smitten the people with a great slaughter.
Revelation 11:19And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of the covenant of the Lord was seen in his temple. And there occurred lightnings, and voices, and thunders, and great hail.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 4:2-21
The Office of the Levites. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 2 Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers, 3 From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation. 4 This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, about the most holy things: 5 And when the camp setteth forward,… Read the whole commentary →