Numbers 4:19

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This is how you must deal with them in order that they may live and not die when they come near to the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in and assign each to a particular task or burden.

Cross References

2 Samuel 6:6

When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached out his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen shook it.

Exodus 19:21

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go down and warn the people not to break through to the Lord to look; otherwise many of them will perish.

Numbers 1:51

When the tabernacle is to set out, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up. And any outsider who comes near shall be put to death.

Numbers 18:3

They shall perform duties for you and for the whole tent. But they must not approach either the utensils of the sanctuary or the altar, otherwise both they and you will die.

Numbers 4:15

When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, as the camp sets out, after that the Kohathites shall come to carry these, but they must not touch the holy things, or they will die. These are the things of the tent of meeting that the Kohathites are to carry.

Numbers 4:18

You must not let the tribe of the clans of the Kohathites be destroyed from among the Levites.