Cross-references Explore similar Bible verses on Numbers 4:20 in English Standard Version "but they shall not go in to look on the holy things even for a moment, lest they die.”" Ex 19:21 And the Lord said to Moses, “Go down and warn the people, lest they break through to the Lord to look and many of them perish. 1Sa 6:19 And he struck some of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they looked upon the ark of the Lord. He struck seventy men of them, and the people mourned because the Lord had struck the people with a great blow.