Numbers 16:40 - New International Version (Anglicised)

⁴⁰ as the Lord directed him through Moses. This was to remind the Israelites that no-one except a descendant of Aaron should come to burn incense before the Lord, or he would become like Korah and his followers.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁰ to be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁰ To be a memorial [a warning forever] to the Israelites, so that no outsider, that is, no one not of the descendants of Aaron, should come near to offer incense before the Lord, lest he become as Korah and as his company, as the Lord said to Eleazar through Moses.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁰ to be a memorial unto the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger, that is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to burn incense before Jehovah; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as Jehovah spake unto him by Moses.

Common English Bible

⁴⁰ just as the LORD instructed him through Moses. This was a reminder for the Israelites that no outsider who isn’t one of Aaron’s descendants should approach to burn incense in the LORD’s presence, so as not to be like Korah and his community.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁰ so that the sons of Israel would have, thereafter, something to admonish them, lest any stranger, or anyone who is not of the offspring of Aaron, might approach to offer incense to the Lord, and lest he endure what happened to Korah, and to all his congregation, when the Lord spoke to Moses.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴⁰ That the children of Israel might have for the time to come wherewith they should be admonished, that no stranger or any one that is not of seed of Aaron should come near to offer incense to the Lord: lest he should suffer as Core suffered, and all his congregation: according as the Lord spoke to Moses.

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Ezra 2:62

These searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.

Psalm 115:10

House of Aaron, trust in the Lord – he is their help and shield.

Ezekiel 40:46

and the room facing north is for the priests who guard the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, who are the only Levites who may draw near to the Lord to minister before him.’

Ezekiel 43:19

you are to give a young bull as a sin offering to the Levitical priests of the family of Zadok, who come near to minister before me, declares the Sovereign Lord.

Leviticus 22:10

‘ “No-one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired worker eat it.

Numbers 1:51

Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites are to take it down, and whenever the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall do it. Anyone else who approaches it is to be put to death.

Numbers 16:39

So Eleazar the priest collected the bronze censers brought by those who had been burned to death, and he had them hammered out to overlay the altar,

Numbers 3:10

Appoint Aaron and his sons to serve as priests; anyone else who approaches the sanctuary is to be put to death.’

Numbers 3:38

Moses and Aaron and his sons were to camp to the east of the tabernacle, towards the sunrise, in front of the tent of meeting. They were responsible for the care of the sanctuary on behalf of the Israelites. Anyone else who approached the sanctuary was to be put to death.

Hebrews 5:4

And no-one takes this honour on himself, but he receives it when called by God, just as Aaron was.

Joshua 4:7

tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones are to be a memorial to the people of Israel for ever.’

Jude 1:11

Woe to them! They have taken the way of Cain; they have rushed for profit into Balaam’s error; they have been destroyed in Korah’s rebellion.