Numbers 1:51

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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 if any one else comes near, he shall be put to death.

Cross References

2 Samuel 6:7

And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there because he put forth his hand to the ark; 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 was taken up from over the tabernacle of the testimony,

Numbers 16:40

to be a reminder to the people of Israel, so that no one who is not a priest, who is not of the descendants of Aaron, should draw near to burn incense before the Lord, lest he become as Korah and as his company—as the Lord said to Eleazar through Moses.

Numbers 17:13

Every one who comes near, who comes near to the tabernacle of the Lord, shall die. Are we all to perish?”

Numbers 17:5

And the rod of the man whom I choose shall sprout; thus I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the people of Israel, which they murmur against you.”

Numbers 18:22

And henceforth the people of Israel shall not come near the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin and die.

Numbers 18:3

They shall attend you and attend to all duties of the tent; but shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary or to the altar, lest they, and you, die.

Numbers 18:4

They shall join you, and attend to the tent of meeting, for all the service of the tent; and no one else shall come near you.

Numbers 18:7

And you and your sons with you shall attend to your priesthood for all that concerns the altar and that is within the veil; and you shall serve. I give your priesthood as a gift, and any one else who comes near shall be put to death.”

Numbers 3:10

And you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall attend to their priesthood; but if any one else comes near, he shall be put to death.”

Numbers 3:38

And those to encamp before the tabernacle on the east, before the tent of meeting toward the sunrise, were Moses and Aaron and his sons, having charge of the rites within the sanctuary, whatever had to be done for the people of Israel; and any one else who came near was to be put to death.

1 Samuel 6:19

And he slew some of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they looked into the ark of the Lord; he slew seventy men of them, and the people mourned because the Lord had made a great slaughter among the people.