And Jehovah said to Moses, Go down. Command the people, lest they break through to Jehovah to gaze, and many of them perish.
Numbers 4:18 - Modern King James Version Do not cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among 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. |
And Jehovah said to Moses, Go down. Command the people, lest they break through to Jehovah to gaze, and many of them perish.
Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.
Whoever shall make any like that, to smell of it, shall even be cut off from his people.
So they shall bring out all your wives and your sons to the Chaldeans. And you shall not escape out of their hand, but shall be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon. And you shall cause this city to be burned with fire.
And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who were for Korah, and all their goods.
And Jehovah said to Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again before the testimony, to be kept as a token against the rebels. And you shall completely take away their murmurings from Me so that they do not die.
And you shall keep the charge of the sanctuary and the charge of the altar, so that there may be no wrath any more upon the sons of Israel.
And of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izeharites, the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites. These were the families of the Kohathites.
But do this to them, and they shall live and not die when they approach the Holy of Holies. Aaron and his sons shall go in and appoint each one of them to his service and to his burden.
And He struck the men of Beth-shemesh because they had looked into the ark of Jehovah. He even struck seventy among the people, including fifty chief men. And the people lamented because Jehovah had struck the people with a great slaughter.