Numbers 4:19

19 Do this for them so that they may live and not die when they come near the most holy objects:^[a] Aaron and his sons are to go in and assign each man his task and transportation duty.

Numbers 4:19 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 4:19

But thus do unto them
As after directed:

that they may live and not die;
live long, and not die a sudden and violent death:

when they approach unto the most holy things;
the ark, the shewbread table to take them up and carry them:

Aaron and his sons shall go in;
into the holy and most holy places:

and appoint them in everyone to his service, and to his burden;
what everyone shall do, and how they shall take them up, and bear them.

Numbers 4:19 In-Context

17 Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron:

18 "Do not allow the Kohathite tribal clans to be wiped out from the Levites.

19 Do this for them so that they may live and not die when they come near the most holy objects: Aaron and his sons are to go in and assign each man his task and transportation duty.

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

21 The Lord spoke to Moses:

Footnotes

• [a]. Nm 3:31; 4:4