Numbers 1:51
And when the Tent of meeting goes forward, the Levites are to take it down; and when it is to be put up, they are to do it: any strange person who comes near it is to be put to death.
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In Context
52The children of Israel are to put up their tents, every man in his tent-circle round his flag.
Cross References
Numbers 3:10And give orders that Aaron and his sons are to keep their place as priests; any strange person who comes near is to be put to death.
Numbers 4:1And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
Numbers 4:19But do this to them, so that life and not death may be theirs when they come near the most holy things; let Aaron and his sons go in and give to every one his work and that which he is to take up;
Numbers 10:11Now in the second year, on the twentieth day of the second month, the cloud was taken up from over the Tent of witness.
Numbers 10:21Then the Kohathites went forward with the holy place; the others put up the House ready for their coming.
Numbers 17:5And the rod of that man who is marked out by me for myself will have buds on it; so I will put a stop to the outcries which the children of Israel make to me against you.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 1:48-54
47 But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them. 48 For the Lord had spoken unto Moses, saying, 49 Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel: 50 But thou shalt appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over all things that belong to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the vessels thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the… Read the whole commentary →