Leviticus 10:1–7

The Sin of Nadab and Abihu

¹Now ^aNadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took their respective ^bfirepans, and after putting fire in them, placed incense on it and offered strange fire before the Lord, which He had not commanded them.

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

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

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

And before all the people I will ^cbe honored.’ ”

So Aaron, therefore, kept silent.

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

⁵So they came forward 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 ²kinsmen, the whole house of Israel, shall bewail the burning which the Lord has ³brought about.

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