Numbers 18:22
Good News Translation
The other Israelites must no longer approach the Tent and in this way bring on themselves the penalty of death.

New Revised Standard Version
From now on the Israelites shall no longer approach the tent of meeting, or else they will incur guilt and die.

New American Bible
The Israelites may no longer approach the tent of meeting, thereby incurring the penalty of death.

Douay-Rheims Bible
That the children of Israel may not approach any more to the tabernacle, nor commit deadly sin,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

That the children of Israel may not approach any more to the tabernacle, nor commit deadly sin,

come nigh

Numbers 18:7 But thou and thy sons look ye to the priesthood: and all things that pertain to the service of the altar, and that are within the veil, shall be executed by the priests. If any stranger shall approach, he shall be slain.

Numbers 1:52 And the children of Israel shall camp every man by his troops and bands and army.

Numbers 3:10,38 To Aaron and to his sons, to whom they are delivered by the children of Israel. But thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons over the service of priesthood. The stranger that approacheth to minister, shall be put to death. . . .

bear sin

Leviticus 20:20 If any man lie with the wife of his uncle by the father, or of his uncle by the mother, and uncover the shame of his near akin, both shall bear their sin. They shall die without children.

Leviticus 22:9 Let them keep my precepts, that they may not fall into sin, and die in the sanctuary, when they shall have defiled it. I am the Lord who sanctify them.

and die.

Context
Offerings for Priests and Levites
21And I have given to the sons of Levi all the tithes of Israel for a possession, for the ministry wherewith they serve me in the tabernacle of the covenant: 22That the children of Israel may not approach any more to the tabernacle, nor commit deadly sin,23But only the sons of Levi may serve me in the tabernacle, and bear the sins of the people. It shall be an everlasting ordinance in your generations. They shall not possess any other thing,…
Cross References
Leviticus 22:9
Let them keep my precepts, that they may not fall into sin, and die in the sanctuary, when they shall have defiled it. I am the Lord who sanctify them.

Numbers 1:51
When you are to go forward, the Levites shall take down the tabernacle: when you are to camp, they shall set it up. What stranger soever cometh to it, shall be slain.

Numbers 18:21
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