The Death of Nadab and Abihu

10 Now (A)Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, (B)each took his censer and put fire in it and laid incense on it and offered (C)unauthorized[a] fire before the Lord, which he had not commanded them.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 10:1 Or strange

61 (A)But Nadab and Abihu died when they offered unauthorized fire before the Lord.

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12 And he shall take (A)a censer full of coals of fire from the altar before the Lord, and two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, and he shall bring it inside the veil

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32 [a] “Everything that I command you, you shall be careful to do. (A)You shall not add to it or take from it.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 12:32 Ch 13:1 in Hebrew

46 And Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, and put fire on it from off the altar and lay incense on it and carry it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, for (A)wrath has gone out from the Lord; the plague has begun.”

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The Covenant Confirmed

24 Then he said to Moses, “Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, (A)Nadab, and Abihu, and (B)seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship from afar.

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23 Aaron took as his wife Elisheba, the daughter of (A)Amminadab and the sister of (B)Nahshon, and she bore him (C)Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

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Let (A)my prayer be counted as incense before you,
    and (B)the lifting up of my hands as (C)the evening sacrifice!

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They shall therefore keep my charge, (A)lest they bear sin for it and die thereby when they profane it: (B)I am the Lord who sanctifies them.

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The Priests' Garments

28 “Then bring near to you (A)Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the people of Israel, to serve me as priests—Aaron and Aaron's sons, (B)Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

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Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and (A)seventy of the elders of Israel (B)went up,

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Uzziah's Pride and Punishment

16 But when (A)he was strong, (B)he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the Lord his God and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense. 17 But (C)Azariah the priest went in after him, with eighty priests of the Lord who were men of valor, 18 and they withstood King Uzziah and said to him, (D)“It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the Lord, (E)but for the priests, the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have done wrong, and it will bring you no honor from the Lord God.” 19 Then Uzziah was angry. Now he had a censer in his hand to burn incense, and when he became angry with the priests, (F)leprosy[a] broke out on his forehead in the presence of the priests in the house of the Lord, by the altar of incense. 20 And Azariah the chief priest and all the priests looked at him, and behold, he was leprous in his forehead! And they rushed him out quickly, and he himself hurried to go out, because the Lord had struck him.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 26:19 Leprosy was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13

The Day of Atonement

16 The Lord spoke to Moses after (A)the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they drew near before the Lord and died,

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24 And (A)fire came out from before the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the pieces of fat on the altar, and when all the people saw it, (B)they shouted and (C)fell on their faces.

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And another angel came and stood (A)at the altar with a golden censer, and he was given much incense to offer with (B)the prayers of all the saints on (C)the golden altar before the throne, and (D)the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the angel. Then the angel took the censer and (E)filled it with fire from the altar and threw it on the earth, and (F)there were peals of (G)thunder, rumblings,[a] flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 8:5 Or voices, or sounds

You shall make pots for it to receive its ashes, and shovels and basins and (A)forks and fire pans. You shall make all its utensils of bronze.

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having the golden (A)altar of incense and (B)the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which was (C)a golden urn holding the manna, and (D)Aaron's staff that budded, and (E)the tablets of the covenant.

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according to the custom of the priesthood, he was chosen by lot (A)to enter (B)the temple of the Lord and burn incense. 10 And the whole multitude of the people (C)were praying (D)outside at the hour of incense. 11 And there appeared to him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of (E)the altar of incense.

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19 And the women said,[a] “When we made offerings to the queen of heaven (A)and poured out drink offerings to her, was it (B)without our husbands' approval that we made cakes for her bearing her image and poured out drink offerings to her?”

20 Then Jeremiah said to all the people, (C)men and women, all the people who had given him this answer: 21 (D)“As for the offerings that you offered in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your officials, and the people of the land, (E)did not the Lord remember them? Did it not come into his mind?

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 44:19 Compare Syriac; Hebrew lacks And the women said

15 Then all the men who knew that (A)their wives had made offerings to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, all the people who lived in (B)Pathros in the land of Egypt, answered Jeremiah:

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(A)Why do you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, (B)making offerings to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have come to live, so that you may be cut off and become (C)a curse and a taunt among all the nations of the earth?

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35 They built the high places of Baal (A)in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, (B)to offer up their sons and daughters to Molech, (C)though I did not command them, nor did it enter into my mind, that they should do (D)this abomination, (E)to cause Judah to sin.

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(A)and have built the high places of Baal (B)to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, (C)which I did not command or decree, nor did it come into my mind—

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31 And they have built the high places of (A)Topheth, which is in (B)the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, (C)to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, (D)which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind.

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A Man of God Confronts Jeroboam

13 And behold, (A)a man of God came out of Judah by the word of the Lord to Bethel. Jeroboam was standing by the altar (B)to make offerings. (C)And the man cried against the altar by the word of the Lord and said, “O altar, altar, thus says the Lord: ‘Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, (D)Josiah by name, and he shall sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who make offerings on you, and human bones shall be burned on you.’”

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