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1Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered strange fire before Yahweh, which he had not commanded them.Cross-references: Ex 6:23 · Ex 24:1 · Ex 24:9 · Ex 27:3 · Ex 28:1 · Ex 30:1 · +29 more
2Fire came out from before Yahweh, and devoured them, and they died before Yahweh.Cross-references: Lev 9:24 · Lev 10:5 · Lev 16:1 · Num 3:3 · Num 16:32 · Num 16:35 · +13 more
3Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what Yahweh spoke of, saying, ‘I will show myself holy to those who come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified.’” Aaron held his peace.Cross-references: Gen 18:25 · Ex 14:4 · Ex 19:22 · Ex 29:43 · Lev 8:35 · Lev 21:6 · +31 more
4Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said to them, “Draw near, carry your brothers from before the sanctuary out of the camp.”Cross-references: Ex 6:18 · Ex 6:22 · Num 3:19 · Num 3:30 · 1Chr 6:2 · Luke 7:12 · +3 more
5So they came near, and carried them in their tunics out of the camp, as Moses had said.Cross-references: Lev 8:13
6Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, “Don’t let the hair of your heads go loose, and don’t tear your clothes, so that you don’t die, and so that he will not be angry with all the congregation; but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which Yahweh has kindled.Cross-references: Ex 33:5 · Lev 13:45 · Lev 21:1 · Num 1:53 · Num 5:18 · Num 6:6 · +14 more
7You shall not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting, lest you die; for the anointing oil of Yahweh is on you.” They did according to the word of Moses.Cross-references: Ex 28:41 · Ex 30:30 · Ex 40:13 · Lev 8:12 · Lev 8:30 · Lev 21:12 · +4 more
8Then Yahweh said to Aaron,
9“You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die. This shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.Cross-references: Lev 3:17 · Num 6:3 · Num 6:20 · Prov 20:1 · Prov 31:4 · Isa 28:7 · +9 more
10You are to make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean.Cross-references: Lev 11:47 · Lev 20:25 · Jer 15:19 · Ezek 22:26 · Ezek 44:23 · Titus 1:15 · +1 more
11You are to teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Yahweh has spoken to them by Moses.”Cross-references: Deut 24:8 · Deut 33:10 · 2Chr 17:9 · 2Chr 30:22 · Neh 8:2 · Neh 8:8 · +7 more
12Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons who were left, “Take the meal offering that remains of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, and eat it without yeast beside the altar; for it is most holy;Cross-references: Ex 29:2 · Lev 2:1 · Lev 6:14 · Lev 7:9 · Lev 21:22 · Num 18:9 · +1 more
13and you shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your portion, and your sons’ portion, of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire; for so I am commanded.Cross-references: Lev 2:3 · Lev 6:16 · Num 18:10
14The waved breast and the heaved thigh you shall eat in a clean place, you, and your sons, and your daughters with you: for they are given as your portion, and your sons’ portion, out of the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the children of Israel.Cross-references: Ex 29:24 · Lev 7:29 · Lev 9:21 · Num 18:11 · John 4:34
15They shall bring the heaved thigh and the waved breast with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before Yahweh. It shall be yours, and your sons’ with you, as a portion forever, as Yahweh has commanded.”Cross-references: Gen 13:15 · Gen 17:8 · Gen 17:13 · Gen 17:17 · Lev 7:29 · Lev 7:34 · +1 more
16Moses diligently inquired about the goat of the sin offering, and, behold, it was burned. He was angry with Eleazar and with Ithamar, the sons of Aaron who were left, saying,Cross-references: Ex 32:19 · Lev 6:26 · Lev 6:30 · Lev 9:3 · Lev 9:15 · Num 12:3 · +4 more
17“Why haven’t you eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, since it is most holy, and he has given it to you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before Yahweh?Cross-references: Ex 28:38 · Ex 28:43 · Lev 6:24 · Lev 7:6 · Lev 16:22 · Lev 22:16 · +8 more
18Behold, its blood was not brought into the inner part of the sanctuary. You certainly should have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded.”Cross-references: Lev 6:26 · Lev 6:30
19Aaron spoke to Moses, “Behold, today they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before Yahweh; and such things as these have happened to me. If I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been pleasing in Yahweh’s sight?”Cross-references: Lev 9:8 · Lev 9:12 · Deut 12:7 · Deut 26:14 · 1Sam 1:7 · Isa 1:11 · +10 more
20When Moses heard that, it was pleasing in his sight.Cross-references: 2Chr 30:18 · Zech 7:8 · Matt 12:3 · Matt 12:20
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