Numbers 4:18

Destroy not the people of Caath from the midst of the Levites:

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 to them, that they may live, and not die, by touching the holies of holies. Aaron and his sons shall go in, and they shall appoint every man his work, and shall divide the burdens that every man is to carry.

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Cross References

Exodus 19:21He said unto him: Go down, and charge the people: lest they should have a mind to pass the limits to see the Lord, and a very great multitude of them should perish.

Exodus 30:38What man soever shall make the like, to enjoy the smell thereof, he shall perish out of his people.

Numbers 16:32And opening her mouth, devoured them with their tents and all their substance.

Numbers 18:5Watch ye in the charge of the sanctuary, and in the ministry of the altar: lest indignation rise upon the children of Israel.

2 Samuel 6:6And when they came to the floor of Nachon, Oza put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it: because the oxen kicked and made it lean aside.

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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