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Numbers 4:20

American Standard Version

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

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Numbers 4:20 in other translations

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

Numbers 4:20 · World English Bible

Numbers 4:20 in context

  1. 18Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites;
  2. 19but thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden;
  3. 20but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die.
  4. 21And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
  5. 22Take the sum of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers’ houses, by their families;