Add parallel Print Page Options

18 “Do not let the Kohathite clans be destroyed from among the Levites!

Read full chapter

18 “See that the Kohathite tribal clans are not destroyed from among the Levites.

Read full chapter

23 All your wives and children will be led out to the Babylonians, and you will not escape. You will be seized by the king of Babylon, and this city will be burned down.”

Read full chapter

23 “All your wives and children(A) will be brought out to the Babylonians. You yourself will not escape(B) from their hands but will be captured(C) by the king of Babylon; and this city will[a] be burned down.”(D)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 38:23 Or and you will cause this city to

But when they arrived at the threshing floor of Nacon, the oxen stumbled, and Uzzah reached out his hand and steadied the Ark of God. Then the Lord’s anger was aroused against Uzzah, and God struck him dead because of this.[a] So Uzzah died right there beside the Ark of God.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 6:7 As in Dead Sea Scrolls; Masoretic Text reads because of his irreverence.

When they came to the threshing floor of Nakon, Uzzah reached out and took hold of(A) the ark of God, because the oxen stumbled. The Lord’s anger burned against Uzzah because of his irreverent act;(B) therefore God struck him down,(C) and he died there beside the ark of God.

Read full chapter

The Ark Moved to Kiriath-Jearim

19 But the Lord killed seventy men[a] from Beth-shemesh because they looked into the Ark of the Lord. And the people mourned greatly because of what the Lord had done.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 6:19 As in a few Hebrew manuscripts; most Hebrew manuscripts read 70 men, 50,000 men. Perhaps the text should be understood to read the Lord killed 70 men and 50 oxen.

19 But God struck down(A) some of the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh, putting seventy[a] of them to death because they looked(B) into the ark of the Lord. The people mourned because of the heavy blow the Lord had dealt them.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 6:19 A few Hebrew manuscripts; most Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint 50,070

“You yourselves must perform the sacred duties inside the sanctuary and at the altar. If you follow these instructions, the Lord’s anger will never again blaze against the people of Israel.

Read full chapter

“You are to be responsible for the care of the sanctuary and the altar,(A) so that my wrath will not fall on the Israelites again.

Read full chapter

10 And the Lord said to Moses: “Place Aaron’s staff permanently before the Ark of the Covenant[a] to serve as a warning to rebels. This should put an end to their complaints against me and prevent any further deaths.”

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 17:10 Hebrew before the Testimony; see note on 17:4.

10 The Lord said to Moses, “Put back Aaron’s staff(A) in front of the ark of the covenant law, to be kept as a sign to the rebellious.(B) This will put an end to their grumbling against me, so that they will not die.”

Read full chapter

32 The earth opened its mouth and swallowed the men, along with their households and all their followers who were standing with them, and everything they owned.

Read full chapter

32 and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them(A) and their households, and all those associated with Korah, together with their possessions.

Read full chapter

The Sin of Nadab and Abihu

10 Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu put coals of fire in their incense burners and sprinkled incense over them. In this way, they disobeyed the Lord by burning before him the wrong kind of fire, different than he had commanded. So fire blazed forth from the Lord’s presence and burned them up, and they died there before the Lord.

Read full chapter

The Death of Nadab and Abihu

10 Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu(A) took their censers,(B) put fire in them(C) and added incense;(D) and they offered unauthorized fire before the Lord,(E) contrary to his command.(F) So fire came out(G) from the presence of the Lord and consumed them,(H) and they died before the Lord.(I)

Read full chapter

21 Then the Lord told Moses, “Go back down and warn the people not to break through the boundaries to see the Lord, or they will die.

Read full chapter

21 and the Lord said to him, “Go down and warn the people so they do not force their way through to see(A) the Lord and many of them perish.(B)

Read full chapter