Numbers 1:51 Cross References - ISV

⁵¹ Whenever the tent is ready for travel, the descendants of Levi are to take it down. When it’s time to encamp, the descendants of Levi are to set it up. Any unauthorized person who approaches it is to be executed.

¹⁰ Other Prohibitions“No resident alien is to eat anything sacred. Neither the visitor of the priest nor a hired laborer is to eat anything sacred. ¹¹ If a priest acquires a slave as property with his own money, he may eat with him. Those who were born in his house may eat his food. ¹² If a priest’s daughter marries a resident alien, she is not to eat the sacred raised offerings. ¹³ If the priest’s daughter is a widow, or is divorced and childless, so that she has to return to her father’s house as in her younger days, she may eat her father’s food, but no resident alien may eat it.

¹⁰ 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.”

³⁸ The Encampment of Moses and AaronIn front of the tent and east of the Tent of Meeting, Moses, Aaron, and Aaron’s sons encamped facing the east. They were tasked to perform the duties of the sanctuary and care for the needs of the Israelis. Any unauthorized person who approached was to be executed.

¹ The Duties of the Descendants of KohathThe LORD told Moses and Aaron, ² “Take a census of the descendants of Kohath from among the descendants of Levi according to their tribes and ancestral houses ³ from 30 years and older through the age of 50 years, from everyone who can enter the service to perform work at the Tent of Meeting.
⁴ “Here’s what the descendants of Kohath are to do regarding the Tent of Meeting and what’s inside the Most Holy Place: ⁵ When the camp is about to travel, Aaron and his sons are to come and take down the veil of the curtain and cover the Ark of the Testimony with it. ⁶ They are to set a leather-dyed skin covering over it, cover it with a pure blue cloth, and then insert its poles.
⁷ “They are to spread a blue cloth over the table of the Presence and on top of it the dishes, pans, bowls, pitchers for drink offerings, and the bread of presence are to be on it continually. ⁸ They are to spread over them a scarlet cloth and a leather-dyed skin covering and then insert its poles.
⁹ “They are to take a blue cloth and cover the lamp stand for the light with its lamp, lamp-snuffers, censer, and all the utensils for its oil with which they minister. ¹⁰ Then they are to put them with all the other utensils on the leather-dyed skin covering and set them on the beams for transport.
¹¹ “On the golden altar, they are to spread a blue cloth, cover it with a leather-dyed skin covering, and then insert its poles. ¹² Then they are to take all the utensils for service with which they minister at the sanctuary, set them on the blue cloth, cover them with the leather-dyed skin covering, and then set them on the beams for transport. ¹³ They are also to remove the ashes on the altar and spread a purple cloth over it. ¹⁴ Then they are to put all the instruments with which they minister there—trays, forks, shovels, bowls, and all the utensils of the altar. They are to spread over it a leather-dyed skin covering and then insert its poles.
¹⁵ “When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the utensils of the sanctuary, and the camp is about to travel, then the descendants of Kohath are to come and carry them, but they are not to touch the most sacred objects, so they won’t die. These are the duties of the descendants of Kohath at the Tent of Meeting.”
¹⁶ “Now the duty of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest is to maintain the oil for the light, the spiced incense, the daily offerings, the oil for anointing, and to carry out all the duties of the tent and the sanctuary, and to maintain its utensils.”
¹⁷ Protecting the Descendants of KohathThen the LORD told Moses and Aaron, ¹⁸ “You are not to eliminate the tribe of the families of the descendants of Kohath from the descendants of Levi. ¹⁹ But do this for them so that they may live and not die when they approach the Most Holy Place: Aaron and his sons are to go in and set specific responsibilities for each of them to carry out. ²⁰ But they are not to go in to see the sanctuary as it is being covered, so they won’t die.”
²¹ Eleazar’s DutiesThen the LORD told Moses, ²² “Take a census of the descendants of Gershon according to their ancestral house and tribes. ²³ Count their number from between 30 to 50 years old, including everyone who can enter the service to perform work at the Tent of Meeting.”
²⁴ Gershonite Responsibilities“These are the responsibilities that the descendants of Gershon are to have: ²⁵ They are to carry the curtain of the tent, the covering of the Tent of Meeting, the dyed leather covering that goes over it, the curtain for the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, ²⁶ the hangings for the courtyard, the curtain for the entrance to the gate of the courtyard that surrounds the tent, the altar, the ropes, all the service utensils, and everything made for them. This is to be their service area. ²⁷ The descendants of Gershon are to carry out the instructions of Aaron and his sons. You are to assign them their responsibilities to carry out. ²⁸ This is the work of the tribes of Gershon at the Tent of Meeting—their duties under the supervision of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.
²⁹ Merarite Responsibilities“For the descendants of Merari, number them according to their tribes and ancestral houses ³⁰ from 30 to 50 years old as you count them, including everyone who can enter service and perform work at the Tent of Meeting. ³¹ This is to be their area of responsibility to carry out with respect to their service at the Tent of Meeting: the board of the tent, its bars, its crossbars, its sockets, ³² the pillars around the courtyard, their sockets, their pegs, their ropes, and all the utensils for all their services. Assign the utensils by name to each person whose responsibility it will be to carry them. ³³ This is the work of the tribes of the descendants of Merari with reference to their service at the Tent of Meeting under the supervision of Aaron the priest’s son Ithamar.”

¹¹ Order of Travel in the WildernessOn the twentieth day of the second month in the second year, the cloud was lifted up from the Tent of Meeting,

¹⁷ The tent was taken down, and the descendants of Gershon and Merari carried the tent.
¹⁸ Then the standard of the camp of Reuben set out, accompanied by its army with Shedeur’s son Elizur in charge. ¹⁹ Zurishaddai’s son Shelumiel was in charge of the tribe of Simeon. ²⁰ Deuel’s son Eliasaph was in charge of the tribe of Gad. ²¹ Then the descendants of Kohath, carrying the sanctuary, set out, since the tent was to be set up before they arrive.

⁴⁰ to serve as a memorial to the Israelis, a reminder that no unauthorized person, who isn’t a descendant of Aaron, is to attempt to burn incense in the LORD’S presence, so that he may not become like Korah and his group, just as the LORD had spoken by the authority of Moses.

²² Therefore, the Israelis need no longer come to the Tent of Meeting, so they won’t suffer the consequences of their sin and die.

¹⁹ God struck down the men of Beth-shemesh because they had looked into the Ark of the LORD. He struck down 50,070 men among the people, and the people mourned because the LORD struck down the people with a great slaughter.

⁷ Just then, the anger of the LORD blazed against Uzzah, and God struck him down right there because of his failure, and he died there beside the Ark of God.