Numbers 18:3

World English Bible (2000)

They shall keep your commands, and the duty 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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 4:15 : 15 "When Aaron 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 Kohath shall come to carry it: but they shall not touch the sanctuary, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting.
  • Num 4:19-20 : 19 but thus do to them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach to the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them everyone to his service and to his burden; 20 but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die."
  • Num 16:40 : 40 to be a memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger, who isn't of the seed of Aaron, comes near to burn incense before Yahweh; that he not be as Korah, and as his company: as Yahweh spoke to him by Moses.
  • Num 3:25 : 25 The duty of the sons of Gershon in the Tent of Meeting shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, its covering, and the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting,
  • Num 3:31 : 31 Their duty shall be the ark, the table, the lamp stand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, and the screen, and all its service.
  • Num 3:36 : 36 The appointed duty of the sons of Merari shall be the tabernacle's boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, all its instruments, all its service,
  • Num 1:51 : 51 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.
  • Num 18:7 : 7 You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil; and you shall serve: I give you the priesthood as a service of gift: and the stranger who comes near shall be put to death."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 18:4-7
    4 verses
    85%

    4 They shall be joined to you, and keep the responsibility of the Tent of Meeting, for all the service of the Tent: and a stranger shall not come near to you.

    5 "You shall perform the duty of the sanctuary, and the duty of the altar; that there be wrath no more on the children of Israel.

    6 I, behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are a gift, given to Yahweh, to do the service of the Tent of Meeting.

    7 You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil; and you shall serve: I give you the priesthood as a service of gift: and the stranger who comes near shall be put to death."

  • Num 18:22-23
    2 verses
    83%

    22 Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near the Tent of Meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.

    23 But the Levites shall do the service of the Tent of Meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations; and among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.

  • Num 3:6-8
    3 verses
    83%

    6 "Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him.

    7 They shall keep his requirements, and the requirements of the whole congregation before the Tent of Meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle.

    8 They shall keep all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting, and the obligations of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.

  • Num 18:1-2
    2 verses
    81%

    1 Yahweh said to Aaron, "You and your sons and your fathers' house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.

    2 Your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, bring near with you, that they may be joined to you, and minister to you: but you and your sons with you shall be before the tent of the testimony.

  • Num 4:17-21
    5 verses
    81%

    17 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

    18 "Don't cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites;

    19 but thus do to them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach to the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them everyone to his service and to his burden;

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

    21 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 3:38
    80%

    38 Those who encamp before the tabernacle eastward, in front of the Tent of Meeting toward the sunrise, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the requirements of the sanctuary for the duty of the children of Israel. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.

  • Num 1:49-51
    3 verses
    80%

    49 "Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, neither shall you take a census of them among the children of Israel;

    50 but appoint the Levites over the Tabernacle of the Testimony, and over all its furnishings, and over all that belongs to it. They shall carry the tabernacle, and all its furnishings; and they shall take care of it, and shall encamp around it.

    51 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.

  • 1 Chr 23:32
    79%

    32 and that they should keep the duty of the Tent of Meeting, and the duty of the holy place, and the duty of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the service of the house of Yahweh.

  • Num 8:26
    79%

    26 but shall minister with their brothers in the Tent of Meeting, to perform the duty, and shall do no service. You shall do thus to the Levites concerning their duties."

  • Num 3:31-32
    2 verses
    78%

    31 Their duty shall be the ark, the table, the lamp stand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, and the screen, and all its service.

    32 Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be prince of the princes of the Levites, with the oversight of those who keep the requirements of the sanctuary.

  • Num 4:15
    78%

    15 "When Aaron 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 Kohath shall come to carry it: but they shall not touch the sanctuary, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting.

  • Lev 8:35
    77%

    35 You shall stay at the door of the Tent of Meeting day and night seven days, and keep Yahweh's command, that you don't die: for so I am commanded."

  • Num 3:10-11
    2 verses
    77%

    10 You shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall keep their priesthood. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death."

    11 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 18:32
    77%

    32 You shall bear no sin by reason of it, when you have heaved from it its best: and you shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, that you not die.'"

  • Num 1:53
    77%

    53 But the Levites shall encamp around the Tabernacle of the Testimony, that there may be no wrath on the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be responsible for the Tabernacle of the Testimony."

  • Exod 30:20
    77%

    20 When they go into the Tent of Meeting, they shall wash with water, that they not die; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

  • Ezek 44:16
    76%

    16 they shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my instruction.

  • Exod 28:43
    75%

    43 They shall be on Aaron, and on his sons, when they go in to the Tent of Meeting, or when they come near to the altar to minister in the holy place; that they don't bear iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute forever to him and to his descendants after him.

  • Lev 22:9
    75%

    9 "'They shall therefore follow my requirements, lest they bear sin for it, and die therein, if they profane it. I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.

  • 2 Chr 23:6
    75%

    6 But let no one come into the house of Yahweh, except the priests, and those who minister of the Levites. They shall come in, for they are holy, but all the people shall follow Yahweh's instructions.

  • Lev 21:23
    74%

    23 He shall not come near to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he has a blemish; that he may not profane my sanctuaries, for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.'"

  • Lev 10:7
    74%

    7 You shall not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting, lest you die; for the anointing oil of Yahweh is on you." They did according to the word of Moses.

  • Num 17:13
    73%

    13 Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tabernacle of Yahweh, dies! Will we all perish?"

  • Lev 15:31
    73%

    31 "'Thus you shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, so they will not die in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is in their midst.'"

  • Exod 19:22
    73%

    22 Let the priests also, who come near to Yahweh, sanctify themselves, lest Yahweh break forth on them."

  • Exod 30:29
    73%

    29 You shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy. Whatever touches them shall be holy.

  • Num 8:15
    73%

    15 "After that, the Levites shall go in to do the service of the Tent of Meeting: and you shall cleanse them, and offer them as a wave offering.

  • Exod 28:35
    73%

    35 It shall be on Aaron to minister: and its sound shall be heard when he goes in to the holy place before Yahweh, and when he comes out, that he not die.

  • Lev 22:15
    72%

    15 The priests shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer to Yahweh,

  • Num 8:19
    72%

    19 I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the Tent of Meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Israel; that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come near to the sanctuary."

  • Lev 16:2
    72%

    2 and Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron your brother, not to come at all times into the Most Holy Place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he die: for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.

  • Num 16:10
    72%

    10 and that he has brought you near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? and do you seek the priesthood also?

  • Num 8:22
    72%

    22 After that, the Levites went in to do their service in the Tent of Meeting before Aaron, and before his sons: as Yahweh had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.

  • 1 Chr 23:26
    72%

    26 Also the Levites will no longer need to carry the tabernacle and all its vessels for its service."

  • Num 7:9
    71%

    9 But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because the service of the sanctuary belonged to them; they carried it on their shoulders.