The Lord instructed Moses, ‘Go down and warn the people not to break through to see the Lord; otherwise many of them will die.
Numbers 4:18 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised ‘Do not allow the Kohathite tribal clans to be wiped out from the Levites. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [Since] the tribe of the families of the Kohathites [are only Levites and not priests], do not [by exposing them to the sin of touching the most holy things] cut them off from among the Levites. American Standard Version (1901) Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites; Common English Bible You must not let the tribe of the Kohathite clans be eliminated from the Levites. Catholic Public Domain Version "Do not be willing to lose the people of Kohath from the midst of the Levites. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Destroy not the people of Caath from the midst of the Levites. |
The Lord instructed Moses, ‘Go down and warn the people not to break through to see the Lord; otherwise many of them will die.
Anyone who blends something like it or puts some of it on an unauthorised person must be cut off from his people.’
Anyone who makes something like it to smell its fragrance must be cut off from his people.’
All your wives and children will be brought out to the Chaldeans. You yourself will not escape from them, for you will be seized by the king of Babylon and this city will burn.” ’
The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households, all Korah’s people, and all their possessions.
The Lord told Moses, ‘Put Aaron’s staff back in front of the testimony to be kept as a sign for the rebels, so that you may put an end to their complaints before me, or else they will die.’
‘You are to guard the sanctuary and the altar so that wrath may not fall on the Israelites again.
The Amramite clan, the Izharite clan, the Hebronite clan, and the Uzzielite clan came from Kohath; these were the Kohathites.
Do this for them so that they may live and not die when they come near the most holy objects: Aaron and his sons are to go in and assign each man his task and transportation duty.
God struck down the people of Beth-shemesh because they looked inside the ark of the Lord. , He struck down seventy persons. The people mourned because the Lord struck them with a great slaughter.