Numbers 4:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ “You must not let the tribe of the clans of the Kohathites be destroyed from among the Levites.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ [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)

¹⁸ Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites;

Common English Bible

¹⁸ You must not let the tribe of the Kohathite clans be eliminated from the Levites.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ "Do not be willing to lose the people of Kohath from the midst of the Levites.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁸ Destroy not the people of Caath from the midst of the Levites.

Numbers 4:18 Cross References

Exodus 19:21

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go down and warn the people not to break through to see the Lord; otherwise many of them will perish.

Exodus 30:33

Whoever blends any like it or whoever puts any of it on an unqualified person shall be cut off from the people.”

Exodus 30:38

Whoever makes any like it to use as perfume shall be cut off from the people.”

Jeremiah 38:23

“All your wives and your children shall be led out to the Chaldeans, and you yourself shall not escape from their hand but shall be seized by the king of Babylon, and this city shall be burned with fire.”

Numbers 16:32

The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, along with their households—everyone who belonged to Korah and all their goods.

Numbers 17:10

And the Lord said to Moses, “Put back the staff of Aaron before the covenant, to be kept as a warning to rebels, so that you may make an end of their complaints against me, or else they will die.”

Numbers 18:5

You yourselves shall perform the duties of the sanctuary and the duties of the altar, so that wrath may never again come upon the Israelites.

Numbers 3:27

To Kohath belonged the clan of the Amramites, the clan of the Izharites, the clan of the Hebronites, and the clan of the Uzzielites; these were the clans of the Kohathites.

Numbers 4:17

Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

Numbers 4:19

This is how you shall deal with them in order that they may live and not die when they come near the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in and assign each to a particular task or burden.

1 Samuel 6:19

The descendants of Jeconiah did not rejoice with the people of Beth-shemesh when they greeted the ark of the Lord, and he killed seventy men of them. The people mourned because the Lord had made a great slaughter among the people.