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Read Full Chapter (Numbers 4) Numbers 4:20 KJV
"But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die."
Numbers Chapter 4, Verse 20
Numbers 4:20 in Context (Verses 17–23 KJV)
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¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
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Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites:
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But thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden:
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But they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die.
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¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon, throughout the houses of their fathers, by their families;
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From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them; all that enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.*