Yet I will make them performers of the duty of the house, for all its service and for all that will be done therein.
Numbers 18:4 - Y'all Version Bible They are to be joined with you and be responsible of the Tent of Meeting, for all the service of the Tent. A stranger may not come near to y’all. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And they shall be joined to you and attend to the duties of the Tent of Meeting–all the [menial] service of the Tent–and no stranger [no layman, anyone who is not a Levite] shall come near you [Aaron and your sons]. American Standard Version (1901) And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the Tent: and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you. Common English Bible They will assist you and they will perform the duties of the meeting tent with regard to all the work of the tent. But no outsider may accompany you. Catholic Public Domain Version But they may be with you, and they may watch over the care of the tabernacle and all its ceremonies. A foreigner shall not be mixed with you. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But let them be with thee, and watch in the charge of the tabernacle, and in all the ceremonies thereof. A stranger shall not join himself with you. |
Yet I will make them performers of the duty of the house, for all its service and for all that will be done therein.
When the tabernacle is to move, the Levites must take it down. When the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites must set it up. The stranger who comes near must be put to death.
But the Levites are to camp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, so that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel. The Levites are responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony.”
They are to keep your commands and the duty of the whole Tent, but they must not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar. Otherwise both they and y’all will die.
“Y’all are to perform the duty of the sanctuary and the duty of the altar, so that there be no more wrath on the children of Israel.
You are to appoint Aaron and his sons to keep their priesthood, but the stranger who comes near must be put to death.”
From the children of Israel’s half, you are to take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, of all the livestock, and give them to the Levites, who perform the duty of YHWH’s tabernacle.”
but may assist their brothers at the Tent of Meeting, to performing the duty, but not perform the work. This is how you are to assign the duties of the Levites.”
He struck of the men of Beth Shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of YHWH, he struck fifty thousand seventy of the men. Then the people mourned, because YHWH had struck the people with a great slaughter.