51 Whenever 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.
Numbers 1:51
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Numbers 4:4–6
4 This service of the Kohathites at the Tent of Meeting regards the most holy things. 5 Whenever the camp sets out, Aaron and his sons are to go in, take down the veil of the curtain, and cover the ark of the Testimony with it. 6 They are to place over this a coverin…
Numbers 3:9–11
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Numbers 3:37–39
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Numbers 18:2–4
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Numbers 8:25–26
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Numbers 2:16–18
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Numbers 4:19–21
19 In order that they may live and not die when they come near the most holy things, do this for them: Aaron and his sons are to go in and assign each man his task and what he is to carry. 20 But the Kohathites are not to go in and look at the holy objects, even for…
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