Numbers 4:20

But they shall not go in to see, when the vessels of the sanctuary are covered, lest they die.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die.

In Context

19But do this to them, that they may live and not die, in their approach to the Holy of Holies: Let Aharon and his sons go in, and appoint each man his service and his burden.

21And the Lord spake with Mosheh, saying:

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Cross References

Exodus 19:21And the Lord said to Mosheh, Go down, warn the people lest they break through before the Lord to see, and many of them fall.

Numbers 1:51And when the tabernacle is to go forward, the Levites shall take it apart; and when the tabernacle is to be stationary, the Levites shall set it up; but the stranger who cometh nigh shall be put to death.

Numbers 4:19But do this to them, that they may live and not die, in their approach to the Holy of Holies: Let Aharon and his sons go in, and appoint each man his service and his burden.

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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