Numbers 18:22
 Numbers 18:22 
New International Version (©2011)
From now on the Israelites must not go near the tent of meeting, or they will bear the consequences of their sin and will die.

New Living Translation (©2007)
"From now on, no Israelites except priests or Levites may approach the Tabernacle. If they come too near, they will be judged guilty and will die.

English Standard Version (©2001)
so that the people of Israel do not come near the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin and die.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"The sons of Israel shall not come near the tent of meeting again, or they will bear sin and die.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The Israelites must never again come near the tent of meeting, or they will incur guilt and die.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Therefore, the Israelis need no longer come to the Tent of Meeting, so they won't suffer the consequences of their sin and die.

NET Bible (©2006)
No longer may the Israelites approach the tent of meeting, or else they will bear their sin and die.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The other Israelites must never again come near the tent of meeting. Otherwise, they'll suffer the consequences of their sin and die.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come near the tabernacle of meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.

American King James Version
Neither must the children of Israel from now on come near the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.

American Standard Version
And henceforth the children of Israel shall not come nigh the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.

Douay-Rheims Bible
That the children of Israel may not approach any more to the tabernacle, nor commit deadly sin,

Darby Bible Translation
Neither shall the children of Israel henceforth come near the tent of meeting, to bear sin and die.

English Revised Version
And henceforth the children of Israel shall not come nigh the tent of meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.

Webster's Bible Translation
Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.

World English Bible
Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near the Tent of Meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.

Young's Literal Translation
'And the sons of Israel come no more near unto the tent of meeting, to bear sin, to die,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

18:20-32 As Israel was a people not to be numbered among the nations, so Levi was a tribe to be distinguished from the rest. Those who have God for their Inheritance and their Portion for ever, ought to look with holy contempt and indifference upon the possessions of this world. The Levites were to give God his dues out of their tithes, as well as the Israelites out of their increase. See, in ver. 31, the way to have comfort in all our worldly possessions, so as to bear no sin by reason of them. 1. We must be sure that what we have is got honestly and in the service of God. That meat is best eaten which is first earned; but if any will not work, neither shall he eat, 2Th 3:10. 2. We must be sure that God has his dues out of it. We have the comfort of our substance, when we have honoured the Lord with it. Ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved the best from it. We should give alms of such things as we have, that all may be holy and comfortable to us.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 22. - Lest they bear sin, and die. לָשֵׂאת חֵטְא לָמוּת. Septuagint, λαβεῖν ἀμαρτίαν θανατηφόρον. In the sense of incurring sin, and the consequent wrath and death.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation,.... To do any part of the priest's office, as to burn incense, as Korah and his company had done; or to do any part of the work of the Levites, by watching in the tabernacle, by taking it down and setting it up, and bearing the vessels of it; otherwise they might come to it, to bring their sacrifices, to pay their vows, and for their purification when necessary, and such like things:

lest they bear sin and die; lest sin be charged upon them, and punishment be inflicted, even the punishment of death; for it was death to intrude into the priest's office.


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The Levites' Portion
21And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation. 22Neither must the children of Israel from now on come near the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die. 23But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance.

Leviticus 22:9 "'The priests are to perform my service in such a way that they do not become guilty and die for treating it with contempt. I am the LORD, who makes them holy.
Numbers 1:51 Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites are to take it down, and whenever the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall do it. Anyone else who approaches it is to be put to death.