Numbers 18:7 · Clearspring

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WEBBE

You 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.”

BSB

But only you and your sons shall attend to your priesthood for everything concerning the altar and what is inside the veil, and you are to perform that service. I am giving you the work of the priesthood as a gift, but any outsider who comes near the sanctuary must be put to death.”

KJV

Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest’s office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest’s office unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

ASV

And thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil; and ye shall serve: I give you the priesthood as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

BBE

And you and your sons with you are to be responsible as priests for the altar and everything on it, and everything inside the veil; you are to do the work of priests; I have given you your position as priests; and any other man who comes near will be put to death.

Original Hebrew

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וְאַתָּה ve·'a·tah and you H859 וּבָנֶיךָ u·va·nei·kha and sons your H1121 אִתְּךָ 'i·te·kha with you H854 תִּשְׁמְרוּ tish·me·ru you will keep H8104 אֶת־ 'et- (marks the object) H853 כְּהֻנַּתְכֶם ke·hu·nat·khem priesthood your H3550 לְכָל־ le·khol to every H3605 דְּבַר de·var (the) matter of H1697 הַמִּזְבֵּחַ ha·miz·be·ach the altar H4196 וּלְמִבֵּית u·le·mi·beit and to from inside H1004 לַפָּרֹכֶת la·pa·ro·khet to the curtain H6532 וַעֲבַדְתֶּם va·'a·vad·tem and you will serve H5647 עֲבֹדַת 'a·vo·dat a service of H5656 מַתָּנָה ma·ta·nah a gift H4979 אֶתֵּן 'e·ten I give H5414 אֶת־ 'et- (marks the object) H853 כְּהֻנַּתְכֶם ke·hu·nat·khem priesthood your H3550 וְהַזָּר ve·ha·zar and the stranger H2114 הַקָּרֵב ha·ka·rev (the) approaching H7131 יוּמָת ס yu·mat he will be put to death H4191

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 1–7

The people complained of their difficulty and peril in drawing near to God. God here gives them to understand, that the priests should come near for them. Aaron would see reason not to be proud of his preferment, when he considered the great care and charge upon him. Be not high-minded, but fear. The greater the trust of work and power that is committed to us, the greater danger there is of betraying that trust. This is a good reason why we should neither envy others' honours, nor desire high places.

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