“You shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall keep their priesthood, but the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.””

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Numbers 3 contains 51 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.