Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall take it down: and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

Bible References

The levites

Numbers 4:5
“When the camp sets out, Aaron and his sons shall go in and they shall take down the veil of the screen and cover the ark of the testimony with it;
Numbers 10:11
Now in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth of the month, the cloud was lifted from over the tabernacle of the testimony;

The stranger

Numbers 3:10
So you shall appoint Aaron and his sons that they may keep their priesthood, but the layman who comes near shall be put to death.”
Numbers 16:40
as a reminder to the sons of Israel that no layman who is not of the descendants of Aaron should come near to burn incense before the Lord; so that he will not become like Korah and his company—just as the Lord had spoken to him through Moses.
Numbers 18:22
The sons of Israel shall not come near the tent of meeting again, or they will bear sin and die.
Leviticus 22:10
No layman, however, is to eat the holy gift; a sojourner with the priest or a hired man shall not eat of the holy gift.
1 Samuel 6:19
He struck down some of the men of Beth-shemesh because they had looked into the ark of the Lord. He struck down of all the people, 50,070 men, and the people mourned because the Lord had struck the people with a great slaughter.
2 Samuel 6:7
And the anger of the Lord burned against Uzzah, and God struck him down there for his irreverence; and he died there by the ark of God.

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