Numbers 4:18

"Destroy not the tribe of the kindreds of the Kohathites, from among the Levites.

Exodus 19:21

And the LORD said unto Moses, "Go down and charge the people that they prease not up unto the LORD for to see him, and so many of them perish.

Leviticus 10:1-2

And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censor, and put fire therein, and put cense upon; and brought strange fire before the LORD: which he commanded them not.

Numbers 16:32

and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them and their houses and all the men that were with Korah and all their goods.

Numbers 17:10

And the LORD said unto Moses, "Bring Aaron's rod again before the witness to be kept for a token unto the children of rebellion, that their murmurings may cease from me, that they die not."

Numbers 18:5

Wait therefore upon the holy place and upon the altar, that there fall no more wrath upon the children of Israel:

1 Samuel 6:19

And he plagued the men of Bethshemesh, because they had seen the ark of the LORD. And he slew of the people fifty thousand and three score and ten persons. And the people lamented, because the LORD had slain so great a slaughter of them.

2 Samuel 6:6-7

And when they came to Nacon's threshing floor, Uzzah put his hand to the ark of God and held it, for the oxen stumbled.

Jeremiah 38:23

Therefore all thy wives with their children shall flee unto the Chaldeans, and thou shalt not escape their hands, but shalt be the king of Babylon's prisoner, and this city shall be burnt."

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Summary

Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites:

Eleazar and the priests would be chargeable with the death of the kohathites, if they failed to give them proper cautions and directions; or permitted them to gaze with irreverence or curiosity upon the holy things, which they might carry, but not see

Bible References

Eleazar and the priests would be chargeable with the death of the kohathites, if they failed to give them proper cautions and directions; or permitted them to gaze with irreverence or curiosity upon the holy things, which they might carry, but not see

Numbers 16:32
and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them and their houses and all the men that were with Korah and all their goods.
Exodus 19:21
And the LORD said unto Moses, "Go down and charge the people that they prease not up unto the LORD for to see him, and so many of them perish.
Leviticus 10:1
And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censor, and put fire therein, and put cense upon; and brought strange fire before the LORD: which he commanded them not.
1 Samuel 6:19
And he plagued the men of Bethshemesh, because they had seen the ark of the LORD. And he slew of the people fifty thousand and three score and ten persons. And the people lamented, because the LORD had slain so great a slaughter of them.
2 Samuel 6:6
And when they came to Nacon's threshing floor, Uzzah put his hand to the ark of God and held it, for the oxen stumbled.
Jeremiah 38:23
Therefore all thy wives with their children shall flee unto the Chaldeans, and thou shalt not escape their hands, but shalt be the king of Babylon's prisoner, and this city shall be burnt."