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1 And the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, took each of them his censer, and put fire in it, and put incense on it, and presented strange fire before Jehovah, which he had not commanded them. 2 And there went out fire from before Jehovah, and devoured them, and they died before Jehovah. 3 And Moses said to Aaron, This is what Jehovah spoke, saying, I will be hallowed in them that come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron was silent. 4 And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said to them, Come near, carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp. 5 And they went near, and carried them in their vests out of the camp, as Moses had said. 6 And Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar his sons, Your heads shall ye not uncover, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest wrath come on all the assembly; but your brethren, the whole house of Israel, shall bewail the burning which Jehovah hath kindled. 7 And ye shall not go out from the entrance of the tent of meeting, lest ye die; for the anointing oil of Jehovah is upon you. And they did according to the word of Moses. 8 And Jehovah spoke to Aaron, saying, 9 Thou shalt not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, and thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tent of meeting, lest ye die — [it is] an everlasting statute throughout your generations, 10 that ye may put difference between the holy and the unholy, and between unclean and clean, 11 and that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Jehovah hath spoken to them by the hand of Moses. 12 And Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons that were left, Take the oblation that is left of Jehovah's offerings by fire, and eat it with unleavened bread beside the altar; for it is most holy. 13 And ye shall eat it in a holy place, because it is thy due, and thy sons' due, of Jehovah's offerings by fire; for so I am commanded. 14 And the breast of the wave-offering, and the shoulder of the heave-offering shall ye eat in a clean place, thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee; for [as] thy due, and thy sons' due, are they given of the sacrifices of peace-offerings of the children of Israel. 15 The shoulder of the heave-offering and the breast of the wave-offering shall they bring, with the fire-offering of the pieces of fat, to wave [them] as a wave-offering before Jehovah; and they shall be thine, and thy sons' with thee, for an everlasting statute, as Jehovah has commanded. 16 And Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin-offering, and behold, it was burnt up: then he was wroth with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron that were left, saying, 17 Why have ye not eaten the sin-offering in a holy place? for it is most holy, and he has given it to you that ye might bear the iniquity of the assembly, to make atonement for them before Jehovah. 18 Lo, its blood was not brought in within the sanctuary: ye should certainly have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded. 19 And Aaron said to Moses, Behold, to-day have they presented their sin-offering and their burnt-offering before Jehovah; and such things have befallen me; and had I to-day eaten the sin-offering, would it have been good in the sight of Jehovah? 20 And Moses heard it; and it was good in his sight.

People & places in this chapter

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People

  • Aaron

    First high priest

    Moses' brother and spokesman, Israel's first high priest.

    Cited in the guide: Exodus 4–40; Leviticus 8–10

  • Abihu

    Aaron's son, priest

    Aaron's son who died alongside Nadab for offering unauthorized fire in the sanctuary.

    Cited in the guide: Exodus 6:23; Leviticus 10:1-2

  • Elzaphan

    Son of Uzziel; Kohathite leader

    A son of Uzziel who with Mishael carried the bodies of Nadab and Abihu outside the camp, and who was later the leader of the Kohathite families.

    Cited in the guide: Exodus 6:22; Leviticus 10:4; Numbers 3:30

  • Mishael

    Son of Uzziel

    A son of Uzziel and cousin of Nadab and Abihu, who with Elzaphan carried their bodies outside the camp at Moses' command.

    Cited in the guide: Exodus 6:22; Leviticus 10:4

  • Moses

    Deliverer and lawgiver

    Drawn from the Nile, he led Israel out of Egypt and received God's Law.

    Cited in the guide: Exodus 2–Deuteronomy 34

  • Nadab

    Aaron's son, priest

    Aaron's eldest son, who died offering unauthorized fire before the LORD.

    Cited in the guide: Exodus 6:23; Leviticus 10:1-2

  • Uzziel

    Son of Kohath; Aaron's uncle

    Kohath's fourth-listed son, the uncle of Aaron, who fathered Mishael, Elzaphan and Sithri and founded the Uzzielite clan.

    Cited in the guide: Exodus 6:18; Exodus 6:22; Leviticus 10:4

Cross references (19)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Numbers 26:61; Deuteronomy 12:32; Leviticus 16:12; Numbers 16:46; Exodus 6:23
  2. 2 Numbers 26:61; Leviticus 9:24; Numbers 16:35; Numbers 3:3–4; 2 Samuel 6:7
  3. 3 Exodus 19:22; Isaiah 49:3; Leviticus 21:6; Numbers 20:12; 1 Samuel 2:30
  4. 4 Exodus 6:22; Exodus 6:18; Numbers 3:30; Acts 5:9–10; Acts 5:6
  5. 5 Leviticus 8:13
  6. 6 Numbers 1:53; Numbers 16:22; Joshua 7:1; Joshua 22:18; 2 Samuel 24:1
  7. 7 Leviticus 21:12; 2 Corinthians 1:21; Acts 10:38; Leviticus 8:30; Exodus 28:41
  8. 9 Luke 1:15; 1 Timothy 3:3; Ephesians 5:18; Titus 1:7; Ezekiel 44:21
  9. 10 Ezekiel 22:26; 1 Peter 1:14–16; Leviticus 11:47; Titus 1:15; Ezekiel 44:23
  10. 11 Malachi 2:7; Matthew 28:20; Nehemiah 8:2; Nehemiah 8:8; Jeremiah 18:18
  11. 12 Leviticus 21:22; Numbers 18:9–10; Exodus 29:2; Leviticus 6:14–18; Leviticus 7:9
  12. 13 Leviticus 6:16; Leviticus 2:3; Numbers 18:10
  13. 14 Numbers 18:11; John 4:34; Leviticus 7:29–34; Leviticus 9:21; Exodus 29:24–28
  14. 15 Leviticus 7:34; Genesis 17:17; 1 Corinthians 9:13–14; Genesis 13:15; Leviticus 7:29–30
  15. 16 Leviticus 9:3; Leviticus 9:15; Matthew 5:22; Mark 3:5; Mark 10:14
  16. 17 Numbers 18:1; Leviticus 7:6–7; Leviticus 6:24–30; Exodus 28:38; John 1:29
  17. 18 Leviticus 6:30; Leviticus 6:26
  18. 19 Leviticus 9:12; Leviticus 9:8; Jeremiah 14:12; Jeremiah 6:20; Malachi 1:13
  19. 20 Matthew 12:20; Zechariah 7:8–9; 2 Chronicles 30:18–20; Matthew 12:3–7

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What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 10:1 Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies (Book IV, Chapters XXV–XXVI)

    And the heretics, indeed, who bring strange fire to the altar of God-- namely, strange doctrines--shall be burned up by the fire from heaven, as were Nadab and Abiud. But such as rise up in opposition to the truth, and exhort others against the Church of God, [shall] remain among those in hell (apud inferos), being swallowed up by an …

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)