Numbers 17:13
11 So Moses did as the LORD had commanded him.
12 Then the Israelites declared to Moses, “Look, we are perishing! We are lost; we are all lost!
Anyone who comes near the tabernacle of the LORD will die. Are we all going to perish?”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Anyone who comes near the tabernacle of the LORD will die. Are we all going to perish?”
- KJV
- Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the LORD shall die: shall we be consumed with dying?
- WEB
- Everyone who keeps approaching the LORD’s tabernacle, dies! Will we all perish?”
- ASV
- Every one that cometh near, that cometh near unto the tabernacle of Jehovah, dieth: shall we perish all of us?
- DARBY
- Every one that comes at all near to the tabernacle of Jehovah shall die: shall we then expire altogether?
- BLB
- Whoever [is] at all drawing near unto the tabernacle of YHWH, he must die. Shall we all utterly die?”
- ÅB
- Enhver som kommer nær - som kommer nær til Herrens tabernakel, han må dø. Skal vi da omkomme alle sammen?
- OTB
- Enhver som nærmer seg Herrens tabernakel vil dø. Skal vi alle omkomme fullstendig?"
- B1930
- Enhver som kommer nær - som kommer nær til Herrens tabernakel, han må dø. Skal vi da omkomme alle sammen?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Hebrews 10:19–22
Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,
Read in contextGenesis 3:3
but about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You must not eat of it or touch it, or you will die.’”
Read in contextNumbers 18:4–7
They are to join you and attend to the duties of the Tent of Meeting, doing all the work at the Tent; but no outsider may come near you.
Read in context1 Chronicles 13:11–13
Then David became angry because the LORD had burst forth against Uzzah; so he named that place Perez-uzzah, as it is called to this day.
Read in context1 Chronicles 15:13
It was because you Levites were not with us the first time that the LORD our God burst forth in anger against us. For we did not consult Him about the proper order.”
Read in contextNumbers 1:51–53
Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites are to take it down, and whenever it is to be pitched, the Levites are to set it up. Any outsider who goes near it must be put to death.
Read in contextPsalms 130:3–4
If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
Read in contextEphesians 2:13
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.
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