Leviticus 10:2

and fire goes out from before YHWH and consumes them, and they die before YHWH.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.

In Context

1And the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, each take his censer, and put fire in them, and put incense on it, and bring strange fire near before YHWH, which He has not commanded them;

3And Moses says to Aaron, “It [is] that which YHWH has spoken, saying, By those drawing near to Me I am sanctified, and in the face of all the people I am honored”; and Aaron is silent.

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Cross References

Leviticus 10:5and they come near, and carry them in their coats to the outside of the camp, as Moses has spoken.

Numbers 3:3these [are] the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whose hand he has consecrated for acting as priest.

Numbers 14:37even the men bringing out an evil account of the land, they die by the plague before YHWH;

Numbers 16:35and fire has come out from YHWH and consumes the two hundred and fifty men bringing the incense near.

Numbers 26:61and Nadab dies—Abihu also—in their bringing strange fire near before YHWH.

2 Samuel 6:7and the anger of YHWH burns against Uzzah, and God strikes him there for the error, and he dies there by the Ark of God.

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 10:2-3

Death of Nadab and Abihu. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the Lord , which he commanded them not. 2 And there went out fire from the Lord , and devoured them, and they died before the Lord . Here is, I. The great sin that Nadab and Abihu were guilty of: and a great sin we must call it, how little soever it appears in our eye, because it is evident by the punishment of it that it… Read the whole commentary →

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