Numbers 4:20
they must not go in to see the holy place even for a moment, or they must die. Aaron and his sons must go in, and then Aaron and his sons must assign each of the Kohathites to his work, to his special tasks.”
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die.
In Context
19Protect them, that they may live and not die, by doing this. When they approach the most holy things
21Yahweh spoke again to Moses. He said,
Cross References
Exodus 19:21Yahweh said to Moses, “Go down and warn the people not to break through to me to look, or many of them will perish.
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 4:19Protect them, that they may live and not die, by doing this. When they approach the most holy things
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 .
Revelation 11:19Then God's temple in heaven was opened and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple. There were flashes of lightning, rumblings, crashes of thunder, an earthquake, and a great hailstorm.
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 →