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They will keep your responsibility and the responsibility of all the tent, only they may not come near the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, so both you and they will not die. They will be joined to you, and they will keep the responsibility of the tent of assembly for the entire service of the tent; a stranger may not come near you. You will keep the responsibility of the sanctuary and the responsibility of the altar, and there will no longer be wrath on the Israelites.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 18:5 Literally “sons/children of Israel”

They are to be responsible to you(A) and are to perform all the duties of the tent,(B) but they must not go near the furnishings of the sanctuary or the altar. Otherwise both they and you will die.(C) They are to join you and be responsible for the care of the tent of meeting—all the work at the tent—and no one else may come near where you are.(D)

“You are to be responsible for the care of the sanctuary and the altar,(E) so that my wrath will not fall on the Israelites again.

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