Numbers 18:4
They must join you and take care of the tent of meeting, for all the work connected with the tent. A foreigner must not come near you.
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Numbers 1:51When the tabernacle is to move to another place, the Levites must take it down. When the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites must set it up. Any stranger who comes near the tabernacle must be killed.
Numbers 3:10You must appoint Aaron and his sons as priests, but any foreigner who comes near must be put to death.”
1 Samuel 6:19Yahweh attacked some of the men of Beth Shemesh because they had looked into the ark of Yahweh. He killed 50,070 men. The people mourned, because Yahweh had given the people a great blow. + 6:19 Instead of 50,070 men , some later copies and modern versions have, seventy men .
Ezekiel 44:14But I will place them as keepers of the work in the house, for all of its duties and everything that is done in it.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 18:2-8
The Service of the Priests and Levites. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father's house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood. 2 And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee shall minister before the tabernacle of witness. 3 And they shall keep thy… Read the whole commentary →