Numbers 18:4

New Century Version

They will join you in taking care of the Meeting Tent. They must do the work at the Tent, and no one else may come near you.

Cross References

Ezekiel 44:14

I will put them in charge of taking care of the Temple area, all the work that must be done in it.

Numbers 1:51

Any time the Holy Tent is moved, the Levites must take it down, and any time it is set up, the Levites must do it. Anyone else who goes near the Holy Tent will be put to death.

Numbers 1:53

But the Levites must make their camp around the Holy Tent of the Agreement so that I will not be angry with the Israelites. The Levites will take care of the Holy Tent of the Agreement.”

Numbers 18:3

They are under your control, to do all the work that needs to be done in the Tent. But they must not go near the things in the Holy Place or near the altar. If they do, both you and they will die.

Numbers 18:5

“You must take care of the Holy Place and the altar so that I won’t become angry with the Israelites again.

Numbers 3:10

Appoint Aaron and his sons to serve as priests, but anyone else who comes near the holy things must be put to death.”

Numbers 31:30

And from the people’s half, take one item out of every fifty. This includes people, cattle, donkeys, sheep, or other animals. Give that to the Levites, who take care of the Lord’s Holy Tent.”

Numbers 8:26

They may help their fellow Levites with their work at the Meeting Tent, but they must not do the work themselves. This is the way you are to give the Levites their jobs.”

1 Samuel 6:19

But some of the men of Beth Shemesh looked into the Ark of the Lord. So God killed seventy of them. The people of Beth Shemesh cried because the Lord had struck them down.