Leviticus 10:1-7

Legacy Standard Bible

Nadab and Abihu Offer Strange Fire

10 Then ^(A)Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took their respective ^(B)firepans and put fire in them. Then they placed incense on it and offered strange fire before Yahweh, which He had not commanded them. ^2 (C)And 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,

So Aaron kept silent.

⁴ Then Moses called to ^(G)Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Aaron’s uncle Uzziel, and said to them, “Come near, carry your ^[b]relatives away from the front of the sanctuary to the outside of the camp.” ⁵ So they came near and carried them still in their ^(H)tunics to the outside of the camp, as Moses had said. ⁶ Then Moses said to Aaron and to his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, “^(I)Do not ^[c]uncover your heads nor tear your clothes, so that you will not die and that He will not ^(J)become wrathful against all the congregation. But your ^[d]relatives, the whole house of Israel, shall weep over the burning which Yahweh has ^[e]brought about. ⁷ You shall not even go out from the doorway of the tent of meeting, lest you die; for ^(K)the anointing oil of Yahweh is upon you.” So they did according to the word of Moses.