Exodus 30:20
Good News Translation
before they go into the Tent or approach the altar to offer the food offering. Then they will not be killed.

New Revised Standard Version
When they go into the tent of meeting, or when they come near the altar to minister, to make an offering by fire to the LORD, they shall wash with water, so that they may not die.

New American Bible
When they are about to enter the tent of meeting, they must wash with water, lest they die. Likewise when they approach the altar to minister, to offer an oblation to the LORD,

Douay-Rheims Bible
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,

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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,

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Exodus 12:15 Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread: in the first day there shall be no leaven in your houses; whosoever shall eat any thing leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall perish out of Israel.

Leviticus 10:1-3 And Nadab and Abiu, the sons of Aaron, taking their censers, put fire therein, and incense on it, offering before the Lord strange fire: which was not commanded them. . . .

Leviticus 16:1,2 And the Lord spoke to Moses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron when they were slain upon their offering strange fire: . . .

1 Samuel 6:19 But he slew of the men of Bethsames, because they had seen the ark of the Lord, and he slew of the people seventy men, and fifty thousand of the common people. And the people lamented, because the Lord had smitten the people with a great slaughter.

1 Chronicles 13:10 And the Lord was angry with Oza, and struck him, because he had touched the ark; and he died there before the Lord.

Psalm 89:7 God, who is glorified in the assembly of the saints: great and terrible above all them that are about him.

Acts 5:5,10 And Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and gave up the ghost. And there came great fear upon all that heard it. . . .

Hebrews 12:28,29 Therefore, receiving an immoveable kingdom, we have grace: whereby let us serve, pleasing God, with fear and reverence. . . .

Context
The Bronze Basin
19Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and feet in it: 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 30:19
Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and feet in it:

Exodus 30:21
Lest perhaps they die. It shall be an everlasting law to him, and to his seed by successions.

Exodus 40:31
And Moses and Aaron, and his sons, washed their hands and feet,

Leviticus 8:6
And immediately, he offered Aaron and his sons. And when he had washed them,

Leviticus 16:4
He shall be vested with a linen tunick: he shall cover his nakedness with linen breeches: he shall be girded with a linen girdle, and he shall put a linen mitre upon his head. For these are holy vestments: all which he shall put on, after he is washed.

Exodus 30:19
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