Leviticus 10:1
And Nadab and Abiu, the sons of Aaron, taking their censers, put fire therein, and incense on it, offering before the Lord strange fire: which was not commanded them.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
2And fire coming out from the Lord destroyed them, and they died before the Lord.
Cross References
Exodus 6:23And Aaron took to wife Elizabeth the daughter of Aminadab, sister of Nahason, who bore him Nadab, and Abiu, and Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Exodus 24:1And he said to Moses: Come up to the Lord, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abiu, and seventy of the ancients of Israel, and you shall adore afar off.
Exodus 27:3And thou shalt make for the uses thereof pans to receive the ashes, and tongs and fleshhooks, and firepans: all its vessels thou shalt make of brass.
Exodus 30:1Thou shalt make also an altar to burn incense, of setim wood.
Exodus 30:34And the Lord said to Moses: Take unto thee spices, stacte, and onycha, galbanum of sweet savour, and the clearest frankincense, all shall be of equal weight.
Exodus 37:29He compounded also the oil for the ointment of sanctification, and incense of the purest spices, according to the work of a perfumer.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 10:1
The story of this chapter is as sad an interruption to the institutions of the levitical law as that of the golden calf was to the account of the erecting of the tabernacle. Here is, I. The sin and death of Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, ver. 1, 2 . II. The quieting of Aaron under this sore affliction, ver. 3 . III. Orders given and observed about the funeral and mourning, ver. 4-7 . IV. A command to the priests not to drink wine when they went in to minister, ver. 8-11 . V. The care Moses took that they… Read the whole commentary →