Numbers 4:18-20

New International Reader's Version

¹⁸ “Make sure that the Kohath families are not destroyed from among the Levites. ¹⁹ I want them to live and not die when they come near the very holy things. So here is what you must do for them. Aaron and his sons must go into the sacred tent and tell each man what to do. They must tell each man what to carry. ²⁰ But the men of Kohath must not go in and look at the holy things. They must not look at them even for a moment. If they do, they will die.”