Numbers 3:1-4
New King James Version
The Sons of Aaron(A)
3 Now these are the (B)records[a] of Aaron and Moses when the Lord spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai. 2 And these are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab, the (C)firstborn, and (D)Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 3 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, (E)the anointed priests, [b]whom he consecrated to minister as priests. 4 (F)Nadab and Abihu had died before the Lord when they offered profane fire before the Lord in the Wilderness of Sinai; and they had no children. So Eleazar and Ithamar ministered as priests in the presence of Aaron their father.
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- Numbers 3:1 Lit. generations
- Numbers 3:3 Lit. whose hands he filled
Numbers 3:1-4
Lexham English Bible
Aaron’s Sons
3 These are the genealogies of Aaron and Moses at the time[a] when Yahweh spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai. 2 These are the names of the descendants of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 3 These are the names of the descendants of Aaron, the priests, the anointed ones whom he consecrated as priests.[b] 4 Nadab and Abihu died before Yahweh[c] when they presented a strange fire before Yahweh[d] in the desert of Sinai, and they had no children.[e] Eleazar and Ithamar served as priest during the presence of Aaron their father.
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- Numbers 3:1 Literally “on a day”
- Numbers 3:3 Literally “he filled their hands to serve as a priest”
- Numbers 3:4 Literally “before the face of Yahweh”
- Numbers 3:4 Literally “before the face of Yahweh”
- Numbers 3:4 Literally “sons were not for them”
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