Numbers 3:25 specifies Gershonites' duty regarding the tabernacle, detailing the guard duties alluded to in Numbers 18:3.

Numbers 3:31 lists sanctuary vessels entrusted to Kohathites, which Numbers 18:3 prohibits them from directly approaching.

Numbers 3:36 details Merarites' duty with the tabernacle structure, part of the guard service described in Numbers 18:3.

Numbers 4:15 warns the Kohathites not to touch the holy items when carrying them, echoing the same death penalty for unauthorized contact.

In Numbers 4:19, Aaron personally assigns each Kohathite's task to prevent death — the same life-preserving procedure as the warning here.

Numbers 4:20 explicitly prohibits even looking at the holy things, expanding the death warning to visual contact — reinforcing the severity.

Numbers 3:10 threatens death for any outsider who approaches the priesthood — similar death penalty but applied to non-Levites, not the Levites themselves.

Numbers 16:40 records the memorial of Korah's rebellion: outsiders who approach the altar die like Korah — illustrating the consequence warned here.

Numbers 1:53 has Levites camp around the tabernacle to prevent wrath on the congregation — a broader application of their protective role.

2 Chronicles 29:34 shows Levites helping skin burnt offerings — a task they were restricted from here, suggesting later practice differed.

2 Chronicles 35:11 has Levites flaying Passover lambs — again performing altar-related work forbidden in this verse, a later development.

Ezekiel 44:13 applies the same restriction: Levites who went astray are barred from approaching holy things, echoing the warning here.

Ezekiel 44:8 rebukes Israel for not keeping charge of holy things — the opposite of the faithful charge described here.