Leviticus 10:1–7

Nadab and Abihu Offer Strange Fire

¹Then ^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.

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

³Then 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.

⁴Then 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.”

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

⁶Then 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.