Numbers 4:18-20

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁸ “Let not the tribe of the families of the Ko′hathites be destroyed from among the Levites; ¹⁹ but deal thus with them, that they may live and not die when they come near to the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in and appoint them each to his task and to his burden, ²⁰ but they shall not go in to look upon the holy things even for a moment, lest they die.”