Numbers 3:10

Only Aaron and his sons could hold the priesthood; any unauthorized person who approached would die. God strictly guarded the holiness of priestly access.

Cross-references · 18

• Num 1:51When 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.
• Num 3:38Those 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.
• Num 18:7You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil. You shall serve. I give you the service of the priesthood as a gift. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.”
• Rom 12:7or service, let us give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching;
• 2 Chr 26:16–21But 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 Yahweh’s temple to burn incense on the altar of incense.
• Heb 10:19–22Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,
• Exod 29:9You 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.
• Acts 6:3–4Therefore 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.
• Num 18:3They shall keep your commands, and the duty of the whole 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.
• Num 16:40to be a memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger, who isn’t of the offspring of Aaron, would come near to burn incense before Yahweh, that he not be as Korah, and as his company; as Yahweh spoke to him by Moses.
• Eph 2:19So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,
• Heb 8:4For 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;
• Ezek 44:8You have not performed the duty of my holy things; but you have set performers of my duty in my sanctuary for yourselves.
• Num 16:35Fire came out from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.
• 1 Tim 4:15–16Be diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be revealed to all.
• 2 Sam 6:7Yahweh’s anger burned against Uzzah; and God struck him there for his error; and he died there by God’s ark.
• 1 Sam 6:19He struck of the men of Beth Shemesh, because they had looked into Yahweh’s ark, he struck fifty thousand seventy of the men. Then the people mourned, because Yahweh had struck the people with a great slaughter.
• 1 Chr 6:32They ministered with song before the tabernacle of the Tent of Meeting, until Solomon had built Yahweh’s house in Jerusalem. They performed the duties of their office according to their order.

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