Numbers 4:20 — Meaning and Application

King James Version

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

Numbers 4:20

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Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites:

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:

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

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon, throughout the houses of their fathers, by their families;

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Numbers 4:1

"And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,"

Numbers 4:2

"Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers,"

Numbers 4:3

"From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation."

Numbers 4:4

"This {shall be} the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, {about} the most holy things:"

Numbers 4:5

"And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering vail, and cover the ark of testimony with it:"

Numbers 4:6

"And shall put thereon the covering of badgers' skins, and shall spread over {it} a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof."

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