Leviticus 10

CHAPTER 10

Nadab and Abihu Offer Strange Fire

1 Then aNadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took their respective bfirepans and put fire in them. Then they placed incense on it and offered strange fire before Yahweh, which He had not commanded them.

2 aAnd fire came out from the presence of Yahweh and consumed them, and they died before Yahweh.

3 Then Moses said to Aaron, “It is what Yahweh spoke, saying,

‘By those who acome near Me I 1bwill be treated as holy,

And before all the people I will cbe glorified.’”

So Aaron kept silent.

4 Then Moses called to aMishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Aaron’s uncle Uzziel, and said to them, “Come near, carry your 1relatives away from the front of the sanctuary to the outside of the camp.”

5 So they came near and carried them still in their atunics to the outside of the camp, as Moses had said.

6 Then Moses said to Aaron and to his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, “aDo not 1uncover your heads nor tear your clothes, so that you will not die and that He will not bbecome wrathful against all the congregation. But your 2relatives, the whole house of Israel, shall weep over the burning which Yahweh has 3brought about.

7 “You shall not even go out from the doorway of the tent of meeting, lest you die; for athe anointing oil of Yahweh is upon you.” So they did according to the word of Moses.

8 Yahweh then spoke to Aaron, saying,

9 “aDo not drink wine or strong drink, neither you nor your sons with you, when you come into the tent of meeting, so that you will not die—it is a perpetual statute throughout your generations—

10 and aso as to separate between the holy and the profane, and between the unclean and the clean,

11 and aso as to instruct the sons of Israel in all the statutes which Yahweh has spoken to them through Moses.”

12 Then Moses spoke to Aaron and to his remaining sons, aEleazar and Ithamar, “bTake the remaining grain offering from the offerings to Yahweh by fire and eat it unleavened beside the altar, for it is most holy.

13 “And you shall eat it in a holy place because it is a statute for you and a statute for your sons taken out of the offerings of Yahweh by fire; for thus I have been commanded.

14 “aThe breast of the wave offering, however, and the thigh of the 1contribution offering you may eat in a clean place, you and your sons and your daughters with you; for they have been given as a statute for you and a statute for your sons taken out of the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the sons of Israel.

15 “aThe thigh contributed by 1raising up and the breast offered by waving they shall bring along with the offerings by fire of the portions of fat, to wave as a wave offering before Yahweh; so it shall be a perpetual statute for you and your sons with you, just as Yahweh has commanded.”

16 But Moses searched carefully for the agoat of the sin offering, and behold, it had been burned up! So he was angry with Aaron’s remaining sons Eleazar and Ithamar, saying,

17 “Why adid you not eat the sin offering at the holy place? For it is most holy, and 1He gave it to you to bear away bthe guilt of the congregation, to make atonement for them before Yahweh.

18 “Behold, asince its blood had not been brought inside, into the sanctuary, you should certainly have beaten it in the sanctuary, just as I commanded.”

19 But Aaron spoke to Moses, “Behold, this very day they abrought near their sin offering and their burnt offering before Yahweh. Then things like these happened to me. So if I had eaten a sin offering today, would it have been good in the sight of Yahweh?”

20 So Moses heard this, and it was good in his sight.