Exodus 30:21
Good News Translation
They must wash their hands and feet, so that they will not die. This is a rule which they and their descendants are to observe forever."

New Revised Standard Version
They shall wash their hands and their feet, so that they may not die: it shall be a perpetual ordinance for them, for him and for his descendants throughout their generations.

New American Bible
they must wash their hands and feet, lest they die. This shall be a perpetual statute for him and his descendants throughout their generations.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Lest perhaps they die. It shall be an everlasting law to him, and to his seed by successions.

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Lest perhaps they die. It shall be an everlasting law to him, and to his seed by successions.

a statute

Exodus 28:43 And Aaron and his sons shall use them when they shall go into the tabernacle of the testimony, or when they approach to the altar to minister in the sanctuary. lest being guilty of iniquity they die. It shall be a law for ever to Aaron, and to his seed after him.

Context
The Bronze Basin
20When they are going into the tabernacle of the testimony, and when they are to come to the altar, to offer on it incense to the Lord, 21Lest perhaps they die. It shall be an everlasting law to him, and to his seed by successions.
Cross References
Exodus 28:43
And Aaron and his sons shall use them when they shall go into the tabernacle of the testimony, or when they approach to the altar to minister in the sanctuary. lest being guilty of iniquity they die. It shall be a law for ever to Aaron, and to his seed after him.

Exodus 30:20
When they are going into the tabernacle of the testimony, and when they are to come to the altar, to offer on it incense to the Lord,

Exodus 30:22
And the Lord spoke to Moses,

Exodus 30:20
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