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Numbers 18:7

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But only you and your sons shall attend to your priesthood for everything concerning the altar and what is inside the veil, and you are to perform that service. I am giving you the work of the priesthood as a gift, but any outsider who comes near the sanctuary must be put to death.”

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil; and ye shall serve: I give you the priesthood as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

KJV

Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest’s office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest’s office unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

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This verse in Numbers 18

Commentary

1 note on this verse

This site's exposition

keep the charge of the sanctuary

on Numbers 18:5-7

Verse 5 gives the purpose of the guard, that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel, so the barrier around the holy things is stated as protection for the people outside it. Verse 7 calls the priesthood a service of gift, which describes the office Korah demanded at 16:10 as something handed over. Matthew Henry reads the same verse as ruling out lordship, since what is given is service to God and to the congregation. The sentence on a stranger who comes near repeats 3:10, and 16:35 had just carried it out on the two hundred and fifty men with censers.

The words behind it

20 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְאַתָּ֣הand you

    veatahH859 →1094 times

  • וּבָנֶ֣יךָand sons your

    uvaneikhaH1121 →4930 times

  • אִ֠תְּךָwith you

    ʾitekhaH854 →929 times

  • תִּשְׁמְר֨וּyou will keep

    tishmeruH8104 →468 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • כְּהֻנַּתְכֶ֜םpriesthood your

    kehunatkhemH3550 →14 times

  • לְכָל־to every

    lekholH3605 →5413 times

  • דְּבַ֧ר<the> matter of

    devarH1697 →1440 times

  • הַמִּזְבֵּ֛חַthe altar

    hamizbeachH4196 →401 times

  • וּלְמִבֵּ֥יתand to from inside

    ulemibeitH1004 →2046 times

  • לַפָּרֹ֖כֶתto the curtain

    laparokhetH6532 →

  • וַעֲבַדְתֶּ֑םand you will serve

    vaavadtemH5647 →288 times

  • עֲבֹדַ֣תa service of

    ʾavodatH5656 →145 times

  • מַתָּנָ֗הa gift

    matanahH4979 →17 times

  • אֶתֵּן֙I give

    ʾetenH5414 →2011 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • כְּהֻנַּתְכֶ֔םpriesthood your

    kehunatkhemH3550 →14 times

  • וְהַזָּ֥רand the stranger

    vehazarH2114 →77 times

  • הַקָּרֵ֖ב<the> approaching

    hakarevH7131 →12 times

  • יוּמָֽת׃ סhe will be put to death

    yumatH4191 →839 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Exodus 28:1“Next, have your brother Aaron brought to you from among the Israelites, along with his sons Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, to serve Me as priests.7 worksExodus 29:9Wrap the sashes around Aaron and his sons and tie headbands on them. The priesthood shall be theirs by a permanent statute. In this way you are to ordain Aaron and his sons.7 works2 Chronicles 26:18They took their stand against King Uzziah and said, “Uzziah, you have no right to offer incense to the LORD. Only the priests, the descendants of Aaron, are consecrated to burn incense. Leave the sanctuary, for you have acted unfaithfully; you will not receive honor from the LORD God.”6 worksNumbers 3:10So you shall appoint Aaron and his sons to carry out the duties of the priesthood; but any outsider who approaches the tabernacle must be put to death.”5 worksJohn 3:27John replied, “A man can receive only what is given him from heaven.5 worksRomans 15:15–16However, I have written you a bold reminder on some points, because of the grace God has given me5 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Hebrews 5:4No one takes this honor upon himself; he must be called by God, just as Aaron was.4 worksIsaiah 56:3Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, “The LORD will utterly exclude me from His people.” And let the eunuch not say, “I am but a dry tree.”4 worksNumbers 16:40just as the LORD commanded him through Moses. This was to be a reminder to the Israelites that no outsider who is not a descendant of Aaron should approach to offer incense before the LORD, lest he become like Korah and his followers.3 worksNumbers 18:20Then the LORD said to Aaron, “You will have no inheritance in their land, nor will you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the Israelites.3 worksNumbers 16:5–7Then he said to Korah and all his followers, “Tomorrow morning the LORD will reveal who belongs to Him and who is holy, and He will bring that person near to Himself. The one He chooses, He will bring near to Himself.3 worksNumbers 18:4–5They are to join you and attend to the duties of the Tent of Meeting, doing all the work at the Tent; but no outsider may come near you.3 worksNumbers 1:51Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites are to take it down, and whenever it is to be pitched, the Levites are to set it up. Any outsider who goes near it must be put to death.2 works1 Samuel 2:28And out of all the tribes of Israel I selected your father to be My priest, to offer sacrifices on My altar, to burn incense, and to wear an ephod in My presence. I also gave to the house of your father all the offerings of the Israelites made by fire.2 worksEphesians 3:8Though I am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,2 worksLeviticus 16:2And the LORD said to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron not to enter freely into the Most Holy Place behind the veil in front of the mercy seat on the ark, or else he will die, because I appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.2 worksLeviticus 16:12–14Then he must take a censer full of burning coals from the altar before the LORD, and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense, and take them inside the veil.2 worksNumbers 3:38Moses, Aaron, and Aaron’s sons were to camp to the east of the tabernacle, toward the sunrise, before the Tent of Meeting. They were to perform the duties of the sanctuary as a service on behalf of the Israelites; but any outsider who approached the sanctuary was to be put to death.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    John 3:27

    John replied, “A man can receive only what is given him from heaven.

    it leads to

    • James 1:17

      Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.

    • 1 Corinthians 4:7

      For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?

    • 1 Corinthians 15:10

      But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of…

    • 1 Peter 4:10–11

      As good stewards of the manifold grace of God, each of you should use whatever gift he has received to serve one another.

    • 1 Corinthians 2:12–14

      We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.

  • Through

    Numbers 18:20

    Then the LORD said to Aaron, “You will have no inheritance in their land, nor will you have any portion among them. I am your portion and your inheritance among the Israelites.

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 44:28

      In regard to their inheritance, I am their inheritance. You are to give them no possession in Israel, for I am their possession.

    • Deuteronomy 10:9

      That is why Levi has no portion or inheritance among his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance, as the LORD your God promised him.

    • Joshua 13:33

      To the tribe of Levi, however, Moses had given no inheritance. The LORD, the God of Israel, is their inheritance, just as He had promised them.

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Bronze Serpent — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 18 →

This page draws on Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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