Numbers 4:15

Tree of Life Version

“When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the Sanctuary and all its holy implements, and when the camp is ready to move out, after this the sons of Kohath may come to do the carrying. But they must not touch the holy items or they will die. These are the task of the sons of Kohath with regard to the Tent of Meeting.

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:24

Then behold, Zadok also came and all the Levites with him, carrying the ark of the covenant of God. They set down the ark of God, then Abiathar came up, until all the people had passed by, out of the city.

2 Samuel 6:13

Now when the bearers of the ark of Adonai had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fatling.

1 Kings 8:3

Then all the elders of Israel came and the kohanim brought up the ark.

1 Chronicles 15:15

The Levites carried the Ark of God on their shoulders with poles, just as Moses commanded according to the word of Adonai.

1 Chronicles 15:2

Then David said, “No one should carry the Ark of God except the Levites, for Adonai has chosen them to carry the Ark of Adonai and to serve Him forever.”

1 Chronicles 23:26

Therefore, the Levites need not carry the Tabernacle and all the vessels for avodah.”

Exodus 19:12

You are to set boundaries for the people all around, saying, ‘Be very careful not to go up onto the mountain, or touch the border of it. Whoever touches the mountain will surely be put to death.

Exodus 19:21

Then Adonai said to Moses, “Go down and warn the people, lest they break through to see Adonai, and many of them die.

Exodus 27:7

Its poles are to be put into the rings, on the two sides of the altar, for carrying it.

Leviticus 16:13

Then he is to put the incense on the fire before Adonai, so that the cloud of the incense may cover the atonement cover that is on the Ark, so that he would not die.

Numbers 1:50

Instead, you are to appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, over all its implements and all pertaining to it. They are to carry the Tabernacle and all its utensils, tend to it and camp around it.

Numbers 1:51

Whenever the Tabernacle sets out, the Levites are to dismantle it, and whenever the Tabernacle is pitched, the Levites are to set it up. But the commoner who comes near to it must be put to death.

Numbers 10:21

Then the Kohathites set out, carrying the holy items. The Tabernacle was to be erected before their arrival.

Numbers 18:3

They are to perform their duties for you and for all matters related to the Tent. They must not approach the implements of the Sanctuary or the altar—otherwise, both you and they will die.

Numbers 3:38

Those camping in front of the Tent of Meeting, on the east, toward the sunrise, were Moses, Aaron, and his sons. They were to care for the Sanctuary on behalf of Bnei-Yisrael. But anyone unauthorized who approached had to be executed.

Numbers 4:14

They are to put onto it all the utensils with which they tend to the altar, among them the firepans, meat forks, shovels and sprinkling bowls. They are to spread over it a covering of porpoise hide and install its poles.

Numbers 4:19

Do this for them so that they may live and not die whenever they approach the most holy items–-Aaron and his sons are to go into the Sanctuary and assign each man his job and his responsibility.

Numbers 4:20

But the Kohathites are not to go in to look at what is holy, not even momentarily, or they will die.”

Numbers 7:9

But to the sons of Kohath he did not give any because their responsibility was carrying the holy items on their shoulders.

Deuteronomy 31:9

Moses wrote down this Torah and gave it to the kohanim, the sons of Levi who carry the Ark of the Covenant of Adonai, and to all the elders of Israel.

Joshua 4:10

The kohanim who carried the ark remained standing in the middle of the Jordan until everything that Adonai had commanded Joshua to speak to the people was completed, according to all that Moses had commanded Joshua. The people hurried across,

1 Samuel 6:19

Then He struck down some of the men of Beth-shemesh because they had gazed into the ark of Adonai. He struck down the people—70 out of 50,000 men—the people mourned because Adonai had struck the people a great slaughter.