38 Those who were to camp before the tabernacle on the east, before the tent of meeting toward the sunrise, were Moses and Aaron and his sons, (A)guarding the sanctuary itself, to protect[a] the people of Israel. And any outsider who came near was to be put to death.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 3:38 Hebrew guard

51 (A)When the tabernacle is to set out, the Levites shall take it down, and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up. (B)And if any outsider comes near, he shall be put to death.

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