Parallel Verses

King James 2000

And you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest's office: and the stranger that comes near shall be put to death.

New American Standard Bible

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.”

King James Version

And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest's office: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

Holman Bible

You are to appoint Aaron and his sons to carry out their priestly responsibilities, but any unauthorized person who comes near the sanctuary must be put to death.”

International Standard Version

Appoint Aaron and his sons so that they are to take responsibility for their priesthood. Any unauthorized person who approaches it is to be put to death."

A Conservative Version

And thou shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall keep their priesthood. And the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.

American Standard Version

And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall keep their priesthood: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

Amplified

So you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall observe and attend to their priesthood; but the layman (non-Levite) who approaches [the holy things] shall be put to death.”

Bible in Basic English

And give orders that Aaron and his sons are to keep their place as priests; any strange person who comes near is to be put to death.

Darby Translation

And Aaron and his sons shalt thou appoint that they may attend to their priest's office; and the stranger that cometh near shall be put to death.

Julia Smith Translation

And Aaron and his sons thou shalt set up, and they shall watch their priesthood; and the stranger coming near shall die.

Lexham Expanded Bible

But you will count Aaron and his descendants; they will keep their priesthood, and the stranger who approaches will be put to death."

Modern King James verseion

And you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest's office. And the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons to wait on their priests' office: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall die for it."

NET Bible

So you are to appoint Aaron and his sons, and they will be responsible for their priesthood; but the unauthorized person who comes near must be put to death."

New Heart English Bible

And you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall attend to their priesthood. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death."

The Emphasized Bible

but unto Aaron, and unto his sons, shalt thou give oversight, so shall they keep charge of their priesthood, - and, the stranger who cometh near, shall be put to death.

Webster

And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest's office: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

World English Bible

You shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall keep their priesthood. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death."

Youngs Literal Translation

'And Aaron and his sons thou dost appoint, and they have kept their priesthood, and the stranger who cometh near is put to death.'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אהרון 
'Aharown 
Usage: 347

and they shall wait on
שׁמר 
Shamar 
Usage: 468

כּהנּה 
K@hunnah 
Usage: 14

קרב 
Qareb 
Usage: 12

References

Context Readings

Aaron's Sons

9 And you shall give the Levites unto Aaron and to his sons: they are wholly given unto him out of the children of Israel. 10  And you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest's office: and the stranger that comes near shall be put to death. 11 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,



Cross References

Numbers 1:51

And when the tabernacle moves forward, the Levites shall take it down: and when the tabernacle is to be encamped, the Levites shall set it up: and the stranger that comes near shall be put to death.

Numbers 3:38

But those that encamp before the tabernacle on the east, even before the tabernacle of meeting eastward, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary to meet the needs of the children of Israel; and the stranger that comes near shall be put to death.

Numbers 18:7

Therefore you and your sons with you shall keep your priest's office for everything at the altar, and within the veil; and you shall serve: I have given your priest's office unto you as a gift for service: and the stranger that comes near shall be put to death.

Romans 12:7

Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teaches, on teaching;

Exodus 29:9

And you shall gird them with belts, Aaron and his sons, and put the turbans on them: and the priest's office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and you shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.

Numbers 16:35

And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.

Numbers 16:40

To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, who is not of the descendants of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he become not as Korah, and as his company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.

Numbers 18:3

And they shall keep your duties, and the duties of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come near the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor you also, die.

1 Samuel 6:19

And he struck the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he struck of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had struck many of the people with a great slaughter.

2 Samuel 6:7

And the anger of the LORD burned against Uzzah; and God struck him there for his irreverence; and there he died by the ark of God.

1 Chronicles 6:32

And they ministered before the dwelling place of the tabernacle of meeting with singing, until Solomon had built the house of the LORD in Jerusalem: and then they served in their office according to their order.

2 Chronicles 26:16-21

But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.

Ezekiel 44:8

And you have not kept charge of my holy things: but you have set others as keepers of my charge in my sanctuary instead of yourselves.

Acts 6:3-4

Therefore, brethren, pick out from among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

Ephesians 2:19

Now therefore you are no more strangers and sojourners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

1 Timothy 4:15-16

Meditate upon these things; give yourself wholly to them; that your progress may appear to all.

Hebrews 8:4

For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:

Hebrews 10:19-22

Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,

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