Numbers 3:10 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁰ “And appoint Aharon and his sons, and they shall guard their priesthood. And the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest's office: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ And you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall observe and attend to their priest's office; but the excluded [anyone daring to assume priestly duties or privileges who is not of the house of Aaron and called of God] who comes near [the holy things] shall be put to death.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall keep their priesthood: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ You will appoint Aaron and his sons to be responsible for the priesthood. Any other person who approaches will be put to death.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ But you shall appoint Aaron and his sons over the service of priesthood. The outsider who approaches to minister shall be put to death."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁰ To Aaron and to his sons, to whom they are delivered by the children of Israel. But thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons over the service of priesthood. The stranger that approacheth to minister shall be put to death.

Numbers 3:10 Cross References

2 Samuel 6:7

And the wrath of יהוה burned against Uzzah, and Elohim struck him there for the fault. And he died there by the ark of Elohim.

1 Kings 12:31

And he made the house of high places, and made priests from all sorts of people, who were not of the sons of Lĕwi.

1 Chronicles 6:32

And they were rendering service in song before the dwelling place of the Tent of Appointment, until Shelomoh had built the House of יהוה in Yerushalayim, and they performed their duties according to their ruling.

Nehemiah 6:11

And I said, “Should a man like me flee? And who is there like me who would go into the Hĕḵal to save his life? I do not go in!”

Exodus 29:9

and shall gird them with girdles – Aharon and his sons – and put the turbans on them. And the priesthood shall be theirs for an everlasting law. So you shall ordain Aharon and his sons.

Ezekiel 44:8

“And you did not guard the charge of that which is set-apart to Me, but you have set others to guard the charge of My set-apart place for you.”

Leviticus 22:10

‘And no stranger eats the set-apart offering. A sojourner with the priest, or a hired servant, does not eat the set-apart offering.

Numbers 1:51

“And when the Dwelling Place is to go forward, the Lĕwites take it down. And when the Dwelling Place is to be set up, the Lĕwites set it up. And the stranger who comes near is put to death.

Numbers 16:10

and that He has brought you near to Himself, you and all your brothers, the sons of Lĕwi, with you? Yet you seek the priesthood as well?

Numbers 16:35

And a fire came out from יהוה and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who were offering incense.

Numbers 16:40

a remembrance to the children of Yisra’ĕl that no stranger who is not of the seed of Aharon, should come near to offer incense before יהוה, and not be like Qoraḥ and his company – as יהוה had said to him through Mosheh.

Numbers 18:3

“And they shall guard your charge, and the duty of all the Tent, but they do not come near the furnishings of the set-apart place and the slaughter-place, lest they die, both they and you.

Numbers 18:7

“But you and your sons with you are to guard your priesthood for all matters at the slaughter-place and behind the veil, and you shall serve. I have given you the priesthood as a gift for service, but the stranger who comes near is put to death.”

Numbers 3:11

And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

Numbers 3:38

And those who were to camp before the Dwelling Place on the east, before the Tent of Appointment, were Mosheh and Aharon, and his sons, guarding the duty of the set-apart place, and the duty of the children of Yisra’ĕl. But the stranger who came near was to be put to death.

Romans 12:7

if serving, in the serving; or he who is teaching, in the teaching;

Ephesians 2:19

So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens of the set-apart ones and members of the household of Elohim,

Deuteronomy 18:5

“For יהוה your Elohim has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand to serve in the Name of יהוה, him and his sons forever.

Hebrews 8:4

For if indeed He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are priests who offer the gifts according to the Torah,

Judges 17:5

Now the man Miḵah had a house of mighty ones, and made a shoulder garment and house idols. And he ordained one of his sons, who became his priest.

1 Samuel 6:19

And He struck among the men of Bĕyth Shemesh, for they had looked into the ark of יהוה. He struck among the people seventy men, and the people mourned because יהוה struck among the people, a great smiting.