Numbers 4:18

“Do not be willing to lose the people of Kohath from the midst of the Levites.

Catholic Public Domain Version

In The King James Version

Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites:

In Context

17And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

19But do this for them, so that they may live, and so that they may not die by touching the Holies of holies. Aaron and his sons shall enter, and they shall assign the work of each one, and they shall determine what each one ought to carry.

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Cross References

Exodus 19:21he said to him: “Descend, and call the people to witness, lest they might be willing to transgress the limits, so as to see the Lord, and a very great multitude of them might perish.

Exodus 30:38Whatever man will have made anything similar, so as to thoroughly enjoy its smell, he shall perish from his people.”

Numbers 16:32And opening its mouth, it devoured them with their tabernacles and their entire substance.

Numbers 18:5Watch over the care of the Sanctuary, and over the ministry of the altar, lest an indignation may rise over the sons of Israel.

2 Samuel 6:6And after they had arrived at the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah extended his hand to the ark of God, and he touched it, because the oxen were kicking and had caused it to tip.

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 →

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