51 Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites are to take it down, and whenever it is to stop at a campsite, the Levites are to set it up. Any unauthorized person who comes near it must be put to death.(A)

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20 The Kohathites are not to go in and look at the holy objects, even for a moment,[a] or they will die.”

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 4:20 Or at the covering of the holy objects

19 From the Israelites, I have given the Levites exclusively to Aaron and his sons to perform the work for the Israelites at the tent of meeting and to make atonement on their behalf, so that no plague will come against the Israelites when they approach the sanctuary.”(A)

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But you and your sons will carry out your priestly responsibilities for everything concerning the altar and for what is inside the veil, and you will do that work. I am giving you the work of the priesthood as a gift,[a] but an unauthorized person who comes near the sanctuary will be put to death.”

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 18:7 Or veil. So you are to perform the service; a gift of your priesthood I grant

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