Leviticus 10:1
And the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, take each his censer, and put in them fire, and put on it perfume, and bring near before Jehovah strange fire, which He hath not commanded them;
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
2and fire goeth out from before Jehovah, and consumeth them, and they die before Jehovah.
Cross References
Exodus 6:23And Aaron taketh Elisheba daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon, to himself for a wife, and she beareth to him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Exodus 24:1And unto Moses He said, 'Come up unto Jehovah, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and ye have bowed yourselves afar off;'
Exodus 27:3And thou hast made its pots to remove its ashes, and its shovels, and its bowls, and its forks, and its fire-pans, even all its vessels thou dost make of brass.
Exodus 30:1'And thou hast made an altar [for] making perfume; [of] shittim wood thou dost make it;
Exodus 30:34And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Take to thee spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum, spices and pure frankincense; they are part for part;
Exodus 37:29and he maketh the holy anointing oil, and the pure spice-perfume — work of a compounder.
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 →