Leviticus 10:3
Then Moses [Drawn out] said to Aaron [Light-bringer], “This is what Adonai spoke of, saying, 1 ‘I will show myself holy to those who come near me, 2 and before all the people I will be glorified.’” Aaron [Light-bringer] held his peace.
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2Fire came out from before Adonai, and devoured them, and they died before Adonai.
Cross References
Exodus 14:4I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will follow after them; and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies; and the Egyptians [people from Abode of slavery] shall know that I am Adonai.” They did so.
Exodus 19:24Adonai said to him, “Go down! You shall bring Aaron [Light-bringer] up with you, but don’t let the priests and the people break through to come up to Adonai, lest he break out against them.”
Leviticus 8:35You shall stay at the door of the Tent of Meeting day and night seven days, and thereby obeying what Adonai has ordered done, so that you may not die. For this is what I am enjoined.”
Leviticus 21:8+ 21:8. Lev 21:8 (#2b.145): T. To set apart and honor the descendants of Aaron [Light-bringer] with priority in all things holy / R. To dedicate the Cohen ·Priest· for service You shall sanctify him therefore; for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you; for I Adonai, who sanctify you, am holy.
Leviticus 21:17+ 21:17. Lev 21:17 (Lev 21:16-23) (#3.230): T. A Cohen ·Priest· with a disqualifying defect shall not offer the daily bread in the Sanctuary / R. A Cohen ·Priest· with a physical blemish must not serve T. Example: List of disqualifying defects: blind, lame, a mutilated face, a limb too long, a broken foot, a broken arm, a hunched back, stunted growth, a cataract in his eye, festering or running sores, or damaged testicles (v18-20) “Say to Aaron [Light-bringer], ‘None of your offspring throughout their generations who has + 21:17. Lev 21:17 (Lev 21:16-23) (#3.231): T. A Cohen ·Priest· with a temporary disqualifying blemish shall not serve in the Sanctuary / R. A Cohen ·Priest· with a temporary blemish must not serve a defect may approach to offer the bread of his God.
Leviticus 22:9“‘They shall therefore follow my requirements, lest they bear crime deserving peanlty, sin ·missing the goal· for it, and die therein, if they profane it. I am Yahweh M'Kaddesham [Yahweh our Santifier / He sustains breathing who makes them holy].
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 →