Numbers 18:4

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • 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 3:10 : 10 You shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall keep their priesthood. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death."
  • 1 Sam 6:19 : 19 He struck of the men of Beth Shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of Yahweh, he struck of the people fifty thousand seventy men; and the people mourned, because Yahweh had struck the people with a great slaughter.
  • 2 Sam 6:6-7 : 6 When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah put forth [his hand] to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the cattle stumbled. 7 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Uzzah; and God struck him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 18:2-3
    2 verses
    85%

    2Your 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.

    3They 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.

  • Num 18:5-7
    3 verses
    80%

    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.

    6I, 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.

    7You 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 3:38
    79%

    38Those 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 18:22-23
    2 verses
    78%

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

    23But 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 1:49-51
    3 verses
    78%

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

    50but 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.

    51When 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 3:7-8
    2 verses
    78%

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

    8They 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 3:10
    78%

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

  • Lev 22:10
    75%

    10"'No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a foreigner living with the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.

  • Num 8:26
    75%

    26but 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."

  • 1 Chr 23:32
    74%

    32and 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.

  • Ezek 44:16
    74%

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

  • Num 15:14-16
    3 verses
    74%

    14If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, or whoever may be among you throughout your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh; as you do, so he shall do.

    15For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner [with you], a statute forever throughout your generations: as you are, so shall the foreigner be before Yahweh.

    16One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner with you.'"

  • Num 4:18-21
    4 verses
    74%

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

    19but 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;

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

    21Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 1:53
    73%

    53But 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."

  • Lev 8:35
    73%

    35You 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."

  • Lev 19:33-34
    2 verses
    73%

    33"'If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.

    34The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.

  • Num 16:40
    73%

    40to 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.

  • Lev 18:26
    73%

    26You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you;

  • Exod 29:33
    72%

    33They shall eat those things with which atonement was made, to consecrate and sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat of it, because they are holy.

  • Lev 17:8
    72%

    8"You shall say to them, 'Any man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice,

  • Num 9:14
    72%

    14"'If a foreigner lives among you, and desires to keep the Passover to Yahweh; according to the statute of the Passover, and according to its ordinance, so shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the foreigner, and for him who is born in the land.'"

  • Ezek 44:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    13They shall not come near to me, to execute the office of priest to me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, to the things that are most holy; but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.

    14Yet will I make them performers of the duty of the house, for all its service, and for all that shall be done therein.

  • 2 Chr 23:6
    71%

    6But 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.

  • Isa 56:6
    71%

    6Also the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh, to minister to him, and to love the name of Yahweh, to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and holds fast my covenant;

  • Num 8:9
    71%

    9You shall present the Levites before the Tent of Meeting. You shall assemble the whole congregation of the children of Israel.

  • Num 17:4
    71%

    4You shall lay them up in the Tent of Meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you.

  • Num 4:15
    71%

    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.

  • Ezek 44:9
    71%

    9Thus says the Lord Yahweh, No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners who are among the children of Israel.

  • Lev 8:33
    70%

    33You shall not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting seven days, until the days of your consecration are fulfilled: for he shall consecrate you seven days.

  • Num 4:4
    70%

    4"This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting, the most holy things.

  • Num 8:15
    70%

    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 12:48-49
    2 verses
    70%

    48When a stranger shall live as a foreigner with you, and will keep the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one who is born in the land: but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.

    49One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you."

  • Exod 12:43
    70%

    43Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner shall eat of it,

  • Num 3:31
    70%

    31Their 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 4:31
    70%

    31This is the duty of their burden, according to all their service in the Tent of Meeting: the tabernacle's boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,