Numbers 4:18-20

New Catholic Bible

¹⁸ “Do not let the clan of the Kohathites be cut off from among the Levites. ¹⁹ Do these things for them so that they may live. Otherwise they will die when they come near to the most holy things. Aaron and his sons will go and appoint each one of them to their ministry and their responsibilities, ²⁰ only they are not to go in and watch while the holy things are being covered, lest they die.”