Numbers 4:18-20

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¹⁸ “You must not let the tribe of the clans of the Kohathites be destroyed from among the Levites. ¹⁹ This is how you shall deal with them in order that they may live and not die when they come near the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in and assign each to a particular task or burden.^{(A) 20} But the Kohathites^[a] must not go in to look on the holy things even for a moment, or they will die.”