Numbers 3:10

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.”

Cross References

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 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.

Romans 12:7

ministry, in ministering; the teacher, in teaching;

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.”

Hebrews 8:4

Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, since there are already those who offer gifts according to the law.

Ephesians 2:19

So then, you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God,

Ezekiel 44:8

And you have not kept charge of my sacred offerings, but you have appointed foreigners to act for you in keeping my charge in my sanctuary.

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 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 16:35

And fire came out from the Lord and consumed the two hundred fifty men offering the incense.

Exodus 29:9

and you shall gird them, Aaron and his sons, with sashes and tie headdresses on them, and the priesthood shall be theirs by a perpetual ordinance. You shall then ordain Aaron and his sons.

1 Chronicles 6:32

They ministered with song before the tabernacle of the tent of meeting until Solomon had built the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, and they performed their service in due order.

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.

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.

Leviticus 22:10

“No layperson shall eat of the sacred donations. No bound or hired servant of the priest shall eat of the sacred donations,

Numbers 3:11

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

Numbers 16:10

He has allowed you to approach him, and all your brother Levites with you, yet you seek the priesthood as well!

Judges 17:5

This man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and teraphim and installed one of his sons, who became his priest.

Deuteronomy 18:5

For the Lord your God has chosen Levi out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the name of the Lord, him and his sons for all time.

1 Kings 12:31

He also made houses on high places and appointed priests from among all the people who were not Levites.

Nehemiah 6:11

But I said, “Should a man like me run away? Would a man like me go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in!”