Numbers 1:51 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁵¹ Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites are to take it down, and whenever it is to stop at a campsite, the Levites are to set it up. Any unauthorised  person who comes near it is to be put to death.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵¹ And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall take it down: and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵¹ When the tabernacle is to go forward, the Levites shall take it down, and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up. And the excluded [any not of the tribe of Levi] who approach the tabernacle shall be put to death.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵¹ And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

Common English Bible

⁵¹ When it’s time to break camp, the Levites will take down the dwelling; and when it’s time to make camp, the Levites will set up the dwelling. Any other person who approaches will be put to death.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵¹ When you would depart, the Levites shall take down the tabernacle. When you are to make camp, they shall set it up. Any outsider who will approach it shall be killed.

Numbers 1:51 Cross References

2 Samuel 6:7

Then the Lord’s anger burned against Uzzah,  and God struck him dead on the spot for his irreverence,  and he died there next to the ark of God.

Numbers 10:11

During the second year, in the second month on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud was lifted up above the tabernacle of the testimony.

Numbers 16:40

just as the Lord commanded him through Moses. It was to be a reminder for the Israelites that no unauthorised person outside the lineage of Aaron should approach to offer incense before the Lord   and become like Korah and his followers.

Numbers 17:13

Anyone who comes near the Lord’s tabernacle will die.  Will we all perish? ’

Numbers 17:5

The staff of the man I choose will sprout, and I will rid myself of the Israelites’ complaints that they have been making about you.’

Numbers 18:22

The Israelites must never again come near the tent of meeting, or they will incur guilt and die.

Numbers 18:3

They are to perform duties for you and for the whole tent. They must not come near the sanctuary equipment or the altar; otherwise, both they and you will die.

Numbers 18:4

They are to join you and guard the tent of meeting, doing all the work at the tent, but no unauthorised person may come near you.

Numbers 18:7

But you and your sons will carry out your priestly responsibilities  for everything concerning the altar and for what is inside the curtain, and you will do that work. I am giving you the work of the priesthood as a gift,  but an unauthorised person who comes near the sanctuary will be put to death.’

Numbers 3:10

You are to appoint Aaron and his sons to carry out their priestly responsibilities, but any unauthorised person who comes near the sanctuary is to be put to death.’

Numbers 3:38

Moses, Aaron, and his sons, who performed the duties of  the sanctuary as a service on behalf of the Israelites, camped in front of the tabernacle on the east,  in front of the tent of meeting towards the sunrise. Any unauthorised person who came near it was to be put to death.

1 Samuel 6:19

God struck down the people of Beth-shemesh because they looked inside the ark of the Lord.  , He struck down seventy persons.  The people mourned because the Lord struck them with a great slaughter.