Numbers 4:18
“When the descendants of Kohath approach the sacred items in the Sacred Tent to take them to another location, Aaron and his sons must always go in with them and show each of them what work to do and what things to carry. But the descendants of Kohath must not enter the Sacred Tent at any other time and look at the things that are in it. If they do that, I will get rid of all the descendants of Kohath.”
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites:
In Context
17“Then Yahweh said to Aaron and Moses/me,
Cross References
Exodus 19:21Yahweh said to Moses/me, “Go down again and warn the people not to cross the boundary in order to look at me. If they do that, many of them will die.
Exodus 30:38I will consider that anyone who makes incense like this to use it for perfume will no longer be allowed to associate with my people.”
Numbers 16:32It swallowed them and their families and all those who were standing there with Korah and all of their possessions.
Numbers 18:5“You are the ones who will do the sacred work inside the Sacred Tent and at the altar. If you obey these instructions, I will not become very angry with the Israeli people again.
2 Samuel 6:6But when they came to the place where Nacon threshed grain, the oxen stumbled. So Uzzah put his hand on the sacred chest to ◄steady it/prevent it from falling off the cart►.
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 →