Numbers 1:51 “Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites are to take it down, a…”

Numbers 1:51

Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites are to take it down, and whenever it is to be pitched, the Levites are to set it up. Any outsider who goes near it must be put to death.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

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.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

And when the Tabernacle goeth forth, the Leuites shall take it downe: and when the Tabernacle is to be pitched, ye Leuites shall set it vp: for the stranger that commeth neere, shalbe slaine.

Darby Translation

and when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle encampeth, the Levites shall set it up; and the stranger that cometh near shall be put to death.

Young's Literal Translation

'And in the journeying of the tabernacle, the Levites take it down, and in the encamping of the tabernacle, the Levites raise it up; and the stranger who is coming near is put to death.'

Bible in Basic English

And when the Tent of meeting goes forward, the Levites are to take it down; and when it is to be put up, they are to do it: any strange person who comes near it is to be put to death.

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Cross references

“the Levites”

Numbers 10:11 Numbers 10:17–21 Numbers 4:5–33

Numbers 10:11 · BSB

On the twentieth day of the second month of the second year, the cloud was lifted from above the tabernacle of the Testimony,

Numbers 10:17–21 · BSB

Then the tabernacle was taken down, and the Gershonites and the Merarites set out, transporting it.

Numbers 4:5–33 · BSB

Whenever the camp sets out, Aaron and his sons are to go in, take down the veil of the curtain, and cover the ark of the Testimony with it.

“the stranger”

Numbers 3:38 Numbers 3:10 Numbers 18:22 1 Samuel 6:19 2 Samuel 6:7 Numbers 16:40

Numbers 3:38 · BSB

Moses, Aaron, and Aaron’s sons were to camp to the east of the tabernacle, toward the sunrise, before the Tent of Meeting. They were to perform the duties of the sanctuary as a service on behalf of the Israelites; but an…

Numbers 3:10 · BSB

So you shall appoint Aaron and his sons to carry out the duties of the priesthood; but any outsider who approaches the tabernacle must be put to death.”

Numbers 18:22 · BSB

No longer may the Israelites come near to the Tent of Meeting, or they will incur guilt and die.

1 Samuel 6:19 · BSB

But God struck down some of the people of Beth-shemesh because they looked inside the ark of the LORD. He struck down seventy men, and the people mourned because the LORD had struck them with a great slaughter.

2 Samuel 6:7 · BSB

And the anger of the LORD burned against Uzzah, and God struck him down on the spot for his irreverence, and he died there beside the ark of God.

Numbers 16:40 · BSB

just as the LORD commanded him through Moses. This was to be a reminder to the Israelites that no outsider who is not a descendant of Aaron should approach to offer incense before the LORD, lest he become like Korah and…

Also

Numbers 4:1–33

Numbers 4:1–33 · BSB

Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

50Instead, you are to appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the Testimony, all its furnishings, and everything in it. They shall carry the tabernacle and all its articles, care for it, and camp around it.

52The Israelites are to camp by their divisions, each man in his own camp and under his own standard.

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