⁵ Then He said, “Do not come near here; ^(A)remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”

^19 (A)Now He fatally struck some of the men of Beth-shemesh because they had looked into the ark of the Lord. He struck 50,070 men among the people, and the people mourned because the Lord had struck the people with a great slaughter.