Numbers 3:10

Numbers · Old Testament · Chapter 3

“And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest’s office: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.”Numbers 3:10

What Does Numbers 3:10 Mean?

Numbers 3:10 is found in the book of Numbers, chapter 3, verse 10 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 20 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.

Cross-References (20)

These passages are connected to Numbers 3:10 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.

Numbers 1:51“And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall take it down: and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.”Numbers 3:38“But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, even before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.”Numbers 18:7“Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest’s office for everything of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest’s office unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.”Numbers 16:40“To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.”1 Kings 12:31“And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.”Ezra 2:62“These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.”Exodus 29:9“And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest’s office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.”Deuteronomy 18:5“For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever.”Romans 12:7“Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;”Exodus 29:33“And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy.”Numbers 16:10“And he hath brought thee near to him, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also?”Numbers 16:35“And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.”Numbers 18:3“And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die.”Numbers 18:4“And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you.”Numbers 18:22“Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die.”1 Kings 13:33“After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places.”2 Chronicles 23:7“And the Levites shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand; and whosoever else cometh into the house, he shall be put to death: but be ye with the king when he cometh in, and when he goeth out.”2 Chronicles 26:16“But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.”Nehemiah 12:44“And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions of the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that waited.”Ezekiel 44:8“And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.”

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