Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And henceforth the children of Israel shall not come nigh the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.
WEB
No longer may the Israelites come near to the Tent of Meeting, or they will incur guilt and die.
YLT
`And the sons of Israel come no more near unto the tent of meeting, to bear sin, to die,
DBT
Neither shall the children of Israel henceforth come near the tent of meeting, to bear sin and die.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentNumbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.
- Author
- Moses — the wilderness narrator; ‘Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys’ (33:2)
- Date
- The wilderness years, c. 15th–13th century BC