Then Adonai said to Moses, “Go down and warn the people, lest they break through to see Adonai, and many of them die.
Numbers 4:18 - Tree of Life Version “You are not to let the families of the tribe of the Kohathites be cut off from among the Levites. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [Since] the tribe of the families of the Kohathites [are only Levites and not priests], do not [by exposing them to the sin of touching the most holy things] cut them off from among the Levites. American Standard Version (1901) Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites; Common English Bible You must not let the tribe of the Kohathite clans be eliminated from the Levites. Catholic Public Domain Version "Do not be willing to lose the people of Kohath from the midst of the Levites. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Destroy not the people of Caath from the midst of the Levites. |
Then Adonai said to Moses, “Go down and warn the people, lest they break through to see Adonai, and many of them die.
Whoever mixes any like it, or whoever puts any of it on anyone unauthorized, will be cut off from his people.’”
Whoever makes any like it, to breathe in its smell, will be cut off from his people.”
“Then they will bring out all your wives and your children to the Chaldeans, and you shall not escape out of their hand, but shall be seized by the hand of the king of Babylon, and this city will be burned down with fire.”
The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, along with all their households, all of Korah’s people and all their possessions.
Adonai said to Moses, “Put Aaron’s staff back in front of the Testimony to keep as a sign to the sons of rebellion, so that it may put an end to their grumblings against Me, and so they will not die.”
So you are to attend to the Sanctuary and the care of the altar, so no further wrath will fall on Bnei-Yisrael.
To Kohath belonged the family of the Amramites, the family of the Izharites, the Hebronites and the Uzzielites. These were the Kohathite families.
Do this for them so that they may live and not die whenever they approach the most holy items–-Aaron and his sons are to go into the Sanctuary and assign each man his job and his responsibility.
Then He struck down some of the men of Beth-shemesh because they had gazed into the ark of Adonai. He struck down the people—70 out of 50,000 men—the people mourned because Adonai had struck the people a great slaughter.