Numbers 4:18

18 destroye not the trybe of the kynredes of the Cahathites from amonge the leuites.

Numbers 4:18 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 4:18

Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites
from among the Levites.
] Or give no occasion, as the Targum of Jonathan; or be not the cause of their cutting off, as Jarchi, through negligence or inadvertency of theirs, in packing up the above things, and delivering them to them.

Numbers 4:18 In-Context

16 And Eleazar the sonne of Aaron the preast shall haue the charge to prepare oyle for the lightes and swete cens and the dayly meatofferynge and the anoyntinge oyle and the ouersyghte of all the dwellynge and of all that therein is: both ouer the sanctuary and ouer all that pertayneth thereto.

17 And the Lorde spake vnto Moses and Aaron sayenge:

18 destroye not the trybe of the kynredes of the Cahathites from amonge the leuites.

19 But thus doo vnto them that they maye lyve and not dye whe they goo vnto ye most holy place. Aaron and his sonnes shall goo in and put them euery man vnto his seruyce and vnto his burthen.

20 But let them not goo in to se when they couer the sanctuarye lest they dye.