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These are the names of the descendants of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. These are the names of the descendants of Aaron, the priests, the anointed ones whom he consecrated as priests.[a] Nadab and Abihu died before Yahweh[b] when they presented a strange fire before Yahweh[c] in the desert of Sinai, and they had no children.[d] Eleazar and Ithamar served as priest during the presence of Aaron their father.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 3:3 Literally “he filled their hands to serve as a priest”
  2. Numbers 3:4 Literally “before the face of Yahweh”
  3. Numbers 3:4 Literally “before the face of Yahweh”
  4. Numbers 3:4 Literally “sons were not for them”

The names of the sons of Aaron were Nadab the firstborn(A) and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.(B) Those were the names of Aaron’s sons, the anointed priests,(C) who were ordained to serve as priests. Nadab and Abihu, however, died before the Lord(D) when they made an offering with unauthorized fire before him in the Desert of Sinai.(E) They had no sons, so Eleazar and Ithamar(F) served as priests during the lifetime of their father Aaron.(G)

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