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Numbers 18:5

in Numbers 18

And you shall attend to the duties of the sanctuary and of the altar, so that wrath may not fall on the Israelites again.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar; that there be wrath no more upon the children of Israel.

KJV

And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel.

This verse in Numbers 18

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

attend to the duties of the sanctuary

on Numbers 18:5-7

Verse 5 gives the guard's purpose, so that wrath may not fall on the Israelites again. The barrier protects the people outside it, and the sentence on any outsider who comes near repeats 3:10.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

The Levites were to attend the priests as servants--bestowed on them as "gifts" to aid in the service of the tabernacle--while the high and dignified office of the priesthood was a "service of gift." "A stranger," that is, one, neither a priest nor a Levite, who should intrude into any departments of the sacred office, should incur the penalty of death.

The words behind it

14 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.

  • וּשְׁמַרְתֶּ֗םand you will keep

    ushemartemH8104 →468 times

  • אֵ֚ת<obj.>

    ʾetH853 →10935 times

  • מִשְׁמֶ֣רֶת[the] service of

    mishmeretH4931 →78 times

  • הַקֹּ֔דֶשׁthe holy place

    hakodeshH6944 →469 times

  • וְאֵ֖תand <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • מִשְׁמֶ֣רֶת[the] service of

    mishmeretH4931 →78 times

  • הַמִּזְבֵּ֑חַthe altar

    hamizbeachH4196 →401 times

  • וְלֹֽא־and not

    velo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • יִהְיֶ֥הit will be

    yihyehH1961 →3559 times

  • ע֛וֹדagain

    odH5750 →490 times

  • קֶ֖צֶףwrath

    ketzefH7110 →29 times

  • עַל־towards

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • בְּנֵ֥י[the] people of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃Israel

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

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

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

    1 Timothy 1:18

    Timothy, my child, I entrust you with this command in keeping with the previous prophecies about you, so that by them you may fight the good fight,

    it leads to

    • 1 Timothy 4:14

      Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given you through the prophecy spoken over you at the laying on of the hands of the elders.

    • 1 Timothy 6:20

      O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you. Avoid irreverent, empty chatter and the opposing arguments of so-called “knowledge,”

    • 2 Timothy 4:1–3

      I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of His appearing and His kingdom:

    • 2 Timothy 2:1–5

      You therefore, my child, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

    • 2 Corinthians 10:3–4

      For though we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh.

  • Through

    Numbers 16:46

    Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the…

    it leads to

    • Numbers 8:19

      And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the Israelites, to perform the service for the Israelites at the Tent of Meeting and to make atonement…

  • Through

    Exodus 27:21

    In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil that is in front of the Testimony, Aaron and his sons are to tend the lamps before the LORD from evening until morning. This is to…

    it leads to

    • Numbers 19:21

      This is a permanent statute for the people: The one who sprinkles the water of purification must wash his clothes, and whoever touches the water of purification will be unclean until evening.

    • Numbers 18:23

      The Levites are to perform the work of the Tent of Meeting, and they must bear their iniquity. This is a permanent statute for the generations to come. The Levites will not receive an…

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.