OLD TESTAMENT

Numbers 3:38

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38

Those who encamp before the tabernacle eastward, in front of the Tent of Meeting toward the sunrise, shall be Moses, with Aaron and his sons, keeping the requirements of the sanctuary for the duty of the children of Israel. The outsider who comes near shall be put to death.

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Verse 38. Sons, the children of Aaron. Those of Moses were among the Levites. 1 Chronicles 23:13. They did not remain with their father.—In the, and so forth Hebrew “to guard the,” and so forth in order to supply for the rest of the Israelites, verse 9. Saint Augustine q. 4.

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