Numbers 18:7 - Tree of Life Version

⁷ But you and your sons with you are to maintain your priesthood for everything pertaining to the altar and inside the parokhet . I am giving you the ministry of the priesthood as a gift. Anyone unauthorized who approaches will die.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest's office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest's office unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ Therefore you and your sons with you shall attend to your priesthood for everything of the altar [of burnt offering and the altar of incense] and [of the Holy of Holies] within the veil, and you shall serve. I give you your priesthood as a service of gift. And the stranger [anyone other than Moses or your sons, Aaron] who comes near shall be put to death. [Exod. 40:18, 20, 26.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ And thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil; and ye shall serve: I give you the priesthood as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

Common English Bible

⁷ You and your sons must perform the duties of your priesthood for all the matters of the altar and the area behind the curtain. I give you your priestly service as a gift. But an outsider who approaches will die.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ But as for you and your sons: guard the priesthood. For all that pertains to the service of the altar and of what is beyond the veil shall be exercised by the priests. If any outsider will approach, he shall be killed."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ But thou and thy sons look ye to the priesthood. And all things that pertain to the service of the altar, and that are within the veil, shall be executed by the priests. If any stranger shall approach, he shall be slain.

Numbers 18:7 Cross References

Psalm 115:10

O house of Aaron, trust in Adonai— He is their help and their shield!

Exodus 28:1

“Bring your brother Aaron near with his sons from among Bnei-Yisrael, so that they may minister to Me as kohanim—Aaron and his sons Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

Exodus 29:9

You are to gird Aaron and his sons with sashes, tie headwear on them, and they shall hold the priesthood by a perpetual statute. In this way you are to consecrate Aaron and his sons.

Ezekiel 44:15

So the Levitical kohanim, the sons of Zadok who kept charge of My Sanctuary when Bnei-Yisrael wandered from Me, will draw near to Me to minister to Me. They will stand before Me to offer Me the fat and the blood”—it is declaration of Adonai.

Ezekiel 44:16

“They are ones who will enter My Sanctuary and draw near to My table to minister to Me. They will keep My charge.

Ezekiel 44:8

You have not kept charge of My holy things, but you have set keepers of My service in My Sanctuary to please yourselves.’”

Leviticus 16:2

Adonai said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at just any time into the Holiest Place behind the curtain —before the atonement cover which is on the Ark—so that he would not die. For I will be appearing in the cloud over the atonement cover.

Leviticus 7:35

This is the anointed portion of Aaron and the anointed portion of his sons out of the offerings of Adonai made by fire, on the day when he presented them to serve Adonai in the office of kohen.

Numbers 1:51

Whenever the Tabernacle sets out, the Levites are to dismantle it, and whenever the Tabernacle is pitched, the Levites are to set it up. But the commoner who comes near to it must be put to death.

Numbers 16:40

just as Adonai had spoken to him by Moses’ hand, so that it would be as a reminder to Bnei-Yisrael that no one who was not a descendant of Aaron should burn incense before Adonai, and so no one would become like Korah and his following.

Numbers 18:20

Adonai said to Aaron, “You will have no inheritance in their land nor share among them. I am your portion and your share among Bnei-Yisrael.

Numbers 18:3

They are to perform their duties for you and for all matters related to the Tent. They must not approach the implements of the Sanctuary or the altar—otherwise, both you and they will die.

Numbers 3:10

You are to appoint Aaron and his sons to maintain the priesthood; any commoner who approaches must be executed.”

Numbers 3:38

Those camping in front of the Tent of Meeting, on the east, toward the sunrise, were Moses, Aaron, and his sons. They were to care for the Sanctuary on behalf of Bnei-Yisrael. But anyone unauthorized who approached had to be executed.

Matthew 10:8

Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those with tza'arat, drive out demons. Freely you received, freely give.

John 3:27

John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from heaven.

Ephesians 3:8

This favor was given to me, the very least of His kedoshim, to proclaim to the Gentiles the endless riches of the Messiah

Deuteronomy 18:2

They will have no inheritance among their brothers—Adonai is their inheritance, just as He promised them.

Hebrews 5:4

And no one takes this honor for himself, but only when he is called by God, as Aaron was.

Joshua 18:7

But the Levites have no portion among you—for the priesthood of Adonai is their inheritance. Also Gad, Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of Adonai gave them.”

1 Peter 5:2

shepherd God’s flock among you. Watch over it not under compulsion but willingly before God, not for dishonest gain but eagerly.

1 Peter 5:3

Don’t lord it over those apportioned to you, but become examples to the flock.

1 Samuel 2:28

Also did I not choose them from all the tribes of Israel to be My kohanim, to officiate at My altar, to burn incense and to wear an ephod before Me? Did I not give to the house of your father all the fire offerings of Bnei-Yisrael?