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Numbers 4:20

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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 · American Standard Version

Numbers 4:20 in context

  1. 18“Don’t cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites;
  2. 19but thus do to them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in and appoint everyone 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. 21Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
  5. 22“Take a census of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers’ houses, by their families;