Numbers 1:51

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

Cross References

2 Samuel 6:7

The anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah, and God struck him there, and he died there beside the ark of God.

Numbers 10:11

In the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud lifted from over the tabernacle of the covenant.

Numbers 16:40

a reminder to the Israelites that no outsider, who is not of the descendants of Aaron, shall approach to offer incense before the Lord, so as not to become like Korah and his congregation, just as the Lord had said to him through Moses.

Numbers 17:13

Everyone who approaches the tabernacle of the Lord will die. Are we all to perish?”

Numbers 17:5

And the staff of the man whom I choose shall sprout; thus I will put a stop to the complaints of the Israelites that they continually make against you.”

Numbers 18:22

From now on the Israelites shall no longer approach the tent of meeting, or else they will incur guilt and die.

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, or else both they and you will die.

Numbers 18:4

They are attached to you in order to perform the duties of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the tent; no outsider shall approach you.

Numbers 18:7

But you and your sons with you shall diligently perform your priestly duties in all that concerns the altar and the area behind the curtain. I give your priesthood as a gift; any outsider who approaches shall be put to death.”

Numbers 3:10

But you shall enroll Aaron and his descendants; it is they who shall attend to the priesthood, and any outsider who comes near shall be put to death.”

Numbers 3:38

Those who were to camp in front of the tabernacle on the east—in front of the tent of meeting toward the sunrise—were Moses and Aaron and Aaron’s sons, who were to perform the duties of the sanctuary, whatever had to be done for the Israelites, and any outsider who came near was to be put to death.

1 Samuel 6:19

The descendants of Jeconiah did not rejoice with the people of Beth-shemesh when they greeted the ark of the Lord, and he killed seventy men of them. The people mourned because the Lord had made a great slaughter among the people.