Numbers 8:19

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

and I have given them as gifts to Aaron and his sons to serve at the sacred tent. I will hold them responsible for what happens to anyone who gets too close to the sacred tent.

Cross References

Exodus 12:50

The Israelites obeyed everything the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron to tell them.

Numbers 1:50

Instead, give them the job of caring for the sacred tent, its furnishings, and the objects used for worship. They will camp around the tent, and whenever you move, they will take it down, carry it to the new camp, and set it up again. Anyone else who tries to go near it must be put to death.

Numbers 1:53

But the Levites will camp around the sacred tent to make sure that no one goes near it and makes me furious with the Israelites.

Numbers 16:46

Then Moses told Aaron, “Grab your fire pan and fill it with hot coals from the altar. Put incense in it, then quickly take it to where the people are and offer it to the LORD, so they can be forgiven. The LORD is very angry, and people have already started dying!”

Numbers 8:18

But now I have chosen these Levites as substitutes for the firstborn sons,

Numbers 8:20

Moses, Aaron, and the other Israelites made sure that the Levites did everything the LORD had commanded.

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,