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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Numbers 18:7

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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18:7 Any unauthorized person . . . will be put to death: This verse warned Israelites at all levels in the sacred hierarchy to avoid areas where they were not allowed. Certain sacred places were off limits to those not qualified in a technical religious sense. Access to the most sacred areas was restricted, set apart for the holiest members of the religious community. Those who broke that taboo violated God’s holiness at the cost of their lives (see also 1:51, 53; 3:10, 29-38; 4:1-20).
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