Numbers 3:10

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

who have been appointed to be priests. Anyone else who tries to perform the duties of a priest must be put to death.

Cross References

2 Samuel 6:7

The LORD God was very angry with Uzzah for doing this, and he killed Uzzah there beside the chest.

1 Kings 12:31

Jeroboam built small places of worship at the shrines and appointed men who were not from the tribe of Levi to serve as priests.

1 Chronicles 6:32

These musicians served at the sacred tent and later at the LORD's temple that King Solomon built.

Nehemiah 6:11

I answered, “Why should someone like me have to run and hide in the temple to save my life? I won't go!”

Exodus 29:9

and caps and their sashes, then ordain them, because they and their descendants will always be priests.

Ezekiel 44:8

Instead of following the proper ways to worship me, you have put foreigners in charge of worship at my temple.

Leviticus 22:10

Only you priests and your families may eat the food offerings; these are too sacred for any of your servants.

Numbers 16:10

The LORD has given you a special responsibility, and now, Korah, you think you should also be his priest.

Numbers 16:35

Suddenly the LORD sent a fire that burnt up the two hundred and fifty men who had offered incense to him.

Numbers 16:40

just as the LORD had told Moses. The pans were a warning to the Israelites that only Aaron's descendants would be allowed to offer incense to the LORD. Anyone else who tried would be punished like Korah and his followers.

Numbers 18:3

You must see that they perform their duties. But if they go near any of the sacred objects or the altar, all of you will die.

Numbers 18:7

But only you and your sons can serve as priests at the altar and in the most holy place. Your work as priests is a gift from me, and anyone else who tries to do that work must be put to death.

Numbers 3:11

Moses, I have chosen these Levites from all Israel, and they will belong to me in a special way. When I killed the firstborn sons of the Egyptians, I decided that the firstborn sons in every Israelite family and the firstborn males of their flocks and herds would be mine. But now I accept these Levites in place of the firstborn sons of the Israelites.

Numbers 3:38

Moses, Aaron, and his sons were to camp in front of the sacred tent, on the east side, and to make sure that the Israelites worshipped in the proper way. Anyone else who tried to do the work of Moses and Aaron was to be put to death.

Romans 12:7

If we can serve others, we should serve. If we can teach, we should teach.

Ephesians 2:19

You Gentiles are no longer strangers and foreigners. You are citizens with everyone else who belongs to the family of God.

Deuteronomy 18:5

Give these gifts to the priests, because the LORD has chosen them and their descendants out of all the tribes of Israel to be his special servants at the place of worship.

Hebrews 8:4

If he were here on earth, he would not be a priest at all, because here the Law appoints other priests to offer sacrifices.

Judges 17:5

He had a shrine for worshipping God there at his home, and he had made some idols and a sacred priestly apron. Micah chose one of his own sons to be the priest for his shrine.

1 Samuel 6:19

Some of the men of Beth-Shemesh looked inside the sacred chest, and the LORD God killed seventy of them. This made the people of Beth-Shemesh very sad,