but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Numbers 4:20 in context
Numbers 4:17–23
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The LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
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“Don’t cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites;
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but do this 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;
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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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The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
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“Take a census of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers’ houses, by their families;
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you shall count them from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old: all who enter in to wait on the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.
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