Numbers 26:61

And Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire before the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD.

In Context

60And to Aaron were born both Nadab and Abihu, and Eleazar, and Ithamar.

62And there were according to their numbering, twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and upward; for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because they have no inheritance in the midst of the children of Israel.

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Cross References

Leviticus 10:1And the two sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, took each his censer, and put fire therein, and threw incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which the Lord did not command them,

Numbers 3:4And Nadab and Abihu died before the Lord, when they offered strange fire before the Lord, in the wilderness of Sinai; and they had no children; and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priests’ office with Aaron their father.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 26:58-63

57 And these are they that were numbered of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites. 58 These are the families of the Levites: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korathites. And Kohath begat Amram. 59 And the name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt:… Read the whole commentary →

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