Priests Nadab & Abihu Offer Profane Fire to the Lord |
Leviticus 10:1-20 The Third Book of Moses Called Leviticus |
[Both priests,] Nadab & Abihu, the sons of Aaron, [each] took his censer & put fire [in it] & put incense [on it there] & offered strange fire before the Lord, which had not commanded them. |
[Exodus 30:7-9 And Aaron shall burn [on there] sweet incense every morning: when he dresses the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it. and when Aaron lights the lamps at [evening,] he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the Lord throughout your generations. Ye shall offer no strange incense [on there,] nor burnt sacrifice, nor [meat/grain] offering [on there.] |
[So] fire went out from the Lord & devoured them & they died before the Lord. [Revelation 20:9 and they went up on the breadth of the earth & [encompassed] the camp [around] the saints & the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven & devoured them.] |
[Moses told] Aaron, This is [what] the Lord [spoke,] saying, I will be sanctified [by those who] come near Me & I will be glorified before all the people. [So] Aaron held his peace. |
Moses called Mishael & Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel, [Aaron’s] uncle & said to them, Come near & carry your brethren [out] from before the sanctuary [to] outside the camp. So, they went near & carried them in their coats out of the camp, as Moses had said. |
Moses said to Aaron & his sons: Eleazar & Ithamar, [Don’t] uncover your heads & neither [tear] your clothing, lest you die & wrath [comes] on all the people. [Leviticus 21:1012 And he [who] is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured & [who] is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor [tear] his clothes. Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or mother. Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor [defile] the sanctuary, of his God; for the crown of the [head with] anointing oil, of his God is upon him. I am the Lord.] |
But let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, [wail, expressing sorrow for] the burning which the Lord has kindled. You shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, lest you die. |
For the anointing oil of the Lord is upon you & they did according to the word of Moses. The Lord [spoke] to Aaron, saying, Don’t you or your sons drink wine or strong drink, when you go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest you die. |
It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations: [So] that you may [distinguish] between [the] holy & unholy and between clean & unclean. [So] you may teach the children [people] of Israel all the statutes which the Lord has spoken to them by the hand of Moses. |
Moses [spoke] to Aaron & Eleazar & Ithamar, his sons [who] are left, Take the [meat/grain] offering that remains of the offerings of the Lord made by fire & eat it without leaven [yeast,] beside the altar: for it is most holy. You shall eat it in the holy place, because it is your & your sons’ [portions] due of the sacrifices of the Lord made by fire: [as] I am commanded [to do] so. |
The heave shoulder & the wave breast, you shall eat in a clean place. You, your sons & your daughters with you. For they are your [portion] due & your son’s [portion] due, which are given out of the sacrifices of [the] Peace Offerings of the children [people] of Israel. |
The heave shoulder & the wave breast shall [be brought] with the offerings made by fire [from] the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before the Lord & it shall be yours & your sons with you, by a statute forever, as the Lord has commanded. |
Moses diligently [searched] for the goat of the sin offering & behold, it was burnt. [Numbers 18:1 And the Lord said to Aaron, You & your sons & your father’s house with you shall bear the [sin] of the sanctuary. And you & your sons with you shall bear the [sin] of your priesthood.] |
[Moses] was angry with Eleazer & Ithamar, [Aaron’s] sons [who remained] alive, saying, [Why haven’t] you eaten the sin offering in the holy place, seeing it is most holy & God has given it [to] you to bear the iniquities of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the Lord? |
[See,] the blood of it was not brought within the holy place & you indeed should have eaten [the goat of the sin offering,] in the holy place, as I commanded. |
Aaron said to Moses, [Look,] this day they have offered their sin offering & their burnt offering before the Lord & [the death & sinfulness of my other 2 sons has befallen me & if I had eaten the sin offering today [would] it have been accepted in the sight of the Lord? When Moses heard that, he was content. |