Numbers 4:19

19 Do this to them and they will live and not die when they come near the most holy things. Aaron and his sons will go and appoint them, each one to his task and burden.

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 Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

18 "You must not cut off the tribe of the clan of the Kohathites from the midst of the Levites.

19 Do this to them and they will live and not die when they come near the most holy things. Aaron and his sons will go and appoint them, each one to his task and burden.

20 But they must not go and look {for a moment} at the holy objects."

21 Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,