Numbers 4:20 - New International Version (Anglicised)

²⁰ But the Kohathites must not go in to look at the holy things, even for a moment, or they will die.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ but they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ 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)

²⁰ but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die.

Common English Bible

²⁰ But they may not enter to look at the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ 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

²⁰ Let not others by any curiosity see the things that are in the sanctuary before they be wrapped up. Otherwise they shall die.

Numbers 4:20 Tagairtí Cros

Exodus 19:21

and the Lord said to him, ‘Go down and warn the people so they do not force their way through to see the Lord and many of them perish.

Leviticus 10:2

So fire came out from the presence of the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord.

Leviticus 16:13

He is to put the incense on the fire before the Lord, and the smoke of the incense will conceal the atonement cover above the tablets of the covenant law, so that he will not die.

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 18:3

They are to be responsible to you and are to perform all the duties of the tent, but they must not go near the furnishings of the sanctuary or the altar. Otherwise both they and you will die.

Numbers 4:15

‘After Aaron and his sons have finished covering the holy furnishings and all the holy articles, and when the camp is ready to move, only then are the Kohathites to come and do the carrying. But they must not touch the holy things or they will die. The Kohathites are to carry those things that are in the tent of meeting.

Numbers 4:19

So that they may live and not die when they come near the most holy things, do this for them: Aaron and his sons are to go into the sanctuary and assign to each man his work and what he is to carry.

Numbers 4:21

The Lord said to Moses,

Revelation 11:19

Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant. And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a severe hailstorm.

1 Samuel 6:19

But God struck down some of the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh, putting seventy of them to death because they looked into the ark of the Lord. The people mourned because of the heavy blow the Lord had dealt them.