Numbers 18:3 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

³ And the Lord said to Aaron: Behold I have given thee the charge of my firstfruits. All things that are sanctified by the children of Israel, I have delivered to thee and to thy sons for the priestly office, by everlasting ordinances.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ And the Levites shall attend you [as servants] and attend to all the duties of the Tent; only they shall not come near the sacred vessels of the sanctuary or to the brazen altar, that they and also you [Aaron] die not.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the Tent: only they shall not come nigh unto the vessels of the sanctuary and unto the altar, that they die not, neither they, nor ye.

Common English Bible

³ They will perform their duties for you and the service for the entire tent. But they will not approach the holy equipment of the sanctuary or the altar, lest both they and you die.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And the Levites shall stand watch by your precepts, and for all the works of the tabernacle; yet in such a manner that they shall not approach the vessels of the Sanctuary and of the altar, lest both they die, and you perish, at the same time.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And the Levites shall watch to do thy commands, and about all the works of the tabernacle. Only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary nor the altar: lest both they die, and you also perish with them.

Numbers 18:3 Cross References

Ezekiel 44:13

1 And no priest shall drink wine when he is to go into the inner court.

Numbers 1:51

All the children of Israel shall camp by their troops, ensigns, and standards, and the houses of their kindreds, round about the tabernacle of the covenant.

Numbers 1:53

And the whole sum of the fighting men of his stock, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.

Numbers 16:40

5 Get you out from the midst of this multitude, this moment will I destroy them. And as they were lying on the ground,

Numbers 18:4

These therefore shalt thou take of the things that are sanctified, and are offered to the Lord. Every offering, and sacrifice, and whatsoever is rendered to me for sin and for trespass, and becometh holy of holies, shall be for thee and thy sons.

Numbers 18:7

2 All the best of the oil, and of the wine, and of the corn, whatsoever firstfruits they offer to the Lord, I have given them to thee.

Numbers 3:25

0 And their prince shall be Elisaphan the son of Oziel:

Numbers 3:31

6 Under their custody shall be the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars, and the pillars and their sockets, and all things that pertain to this kind of service:

Numbers 3:36

1 And thou shalt take the Levites to me for all the firstborn of the children of Israel, I am the Lord: and their cattle for all the firstborn of the cattle of the children of Israel:

Numbers 31:30

5 And thirty-two thousand persons of the female sex, that had not known men.

Numbers 4:15

0 Let not others by any curiosity see the things that are in the sanctuary before they be wrapped up, otherwise they shall die.