The LORD said to Moshe, *Go down, charge the people, lest they break through to the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.
Numbers 4:20 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die.* Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 but they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But [the Kohathites] shall not go in to see the sanctuary [the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies] or its holy things, even for an instant, lest they die. American Standard Version (1901) but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die. Common English Bible But they may not enter to look at the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die. Catholic Public Domain Version Let no others, out of curiosity, see the things that are in the Sanctuary before they are wrapped, otherwise they shall die." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Let not others by any curiosity see the things that are in the sanctuary before they be wrapped up. Otherwise they shall die. |
The LORD said to Moshe, *Go down, charge the people, lest they break through to the LORD to gaze, and many of them perish.
And fire came forth from before the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.
and he shall put the incense on the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is on the testimony, so that he will not die.
When the tabernacle is to move, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall set it up. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.
They shall keep your charge, and the charge of all the Tent: only they shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar, that they not die, neither they, nor you.
*When Aharon and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary, and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp moves forward; after that, the sons of Kehat shall come to carry it: but they shall not touch the sanctuary, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kehat in the Tent of Meeting.
but thus do to them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach to the most holy things: Aharon and his sons shall go in, and appoint them everyone to his service and to his burden;
God's temple that is in heaven was opened, and the ark of the Lord's covenant was seen in his temple. Lightnings, sounds, thunders, an earthquake, and great hail followed.
He struck of the men of Beit-Shemesh, because they had looked into the teivah of the LORD, he struck of the people fifty thousand seventy men; and the people mourned, because the LORD had struck the people with a great slaughter.