“Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near the Tent of Meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Numbers 18 contains 32 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.