Numbers 4:20 KJV — MannaFest

Numbers 4:20

But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die.

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ASV

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

WEB

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

YLT

and they go not in to see when the holy thing is swallowed, that they have died.'

DBT

but they shall not go in and see for a moment the holy things, lest they die.

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Numbers — 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

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1 Samuel 6:19
And he smote the men of Beth–shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the Lord, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the Lord had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.
Exodus 19:21
And the Lord said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the Lord to gaze, and many of them perish.
Leviticus 10:2
And there went out fire from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.
Numbers 4:19
But 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:
Numbers 4:15
And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as the camp is to set forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to bear it: but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation.

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Even those that bore the vessels of the Lord saw not what they bore, so much were even those in the dark concerning the gospel whose office it was to expound the law.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

NUM 4:201SA 6:19 2SA 6:7
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
NUM 4:201SA 6:19 NUM 4:15
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
NUM 4:20LEV 10:2 NUM 26:61
NUM 4:20NUM 4:15 2SA 6:6-7
NUM 4:20LEV 10:2 LEV 9:24
NUM 4:201SA 6:19 EXO 19:21
NUM 4:20NUM 4:15 NUM 7:9
NUM 4:20EXO 19:21 1SA 6:19

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