Parallel Verses

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."

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.

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.

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.

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 You shall give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons. They are wholly given to him on the behalf of the children of Israel. 10 You shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall keep their priesthood. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death." 11 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,



Cross References

Numbers 1:51

When the tabernacle is to move, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall set it up. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.

Numbers 3:38

Those who encamp before the tabernacle eastward, in front of the Tent of Meeting toward the sunrise, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the requirements of the sanctuary for the duty of the children of Israel. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.

Numbers 18:7

You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil; and you shall serve: I give you the priesthood as a service of gift: and the stranger who comes near shall be put to death."

Romans 12:7

or service, let us give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching;

Exodus 29:9

You shall clothe them with belts, Aaron and his sons, and bind headbands on them: and they shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute: and you shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.

Numbers 16:35

Fire came forth from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.

Numbers 16:40

to be a memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger, who isn't of the seed of Aaron, comes near to burn incense before Yahweh; that he not be as Korah, and as his company: as Yahweh spoke to him by Moses.

Numbers 18:3

They shall keep your commands, and the duty of all the Tent: only they shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar, that they not die, neither they, nor you.

1 Samuel 6:19

He struck of the men of Beth Shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of Yahweh, he struck of the people fifty thousand seventy men; and the people mourned, because Yahweh had struck the people with a great slaughter.

2 Samuel 6:7

The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Uzzah; and God struck him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.

1 Chronicles 6:32

They ministered with song before the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting, until Solomon had built the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem: and they waited on their office according to their order.

2 Chronicles 26:16-21

But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against Yahweh his God; for he went into the temple of Yahweh to burn incense on the altar of incense.

Ezekiel 44:8

You have not performed the duty of my holy things; but you have set performers of my duty in my sanctuary for yourselves.

Acts 6:3-4

Therefore select from among you, brothers, seven men of good report, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

Ephesians 2:19

So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

1 Timothy 4:15-16

Be diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be revealed to all.

Hebrews 8:4

For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law;

Hebrews 10:19-22

Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,

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