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Numbers 3:2

Aaron had four sons. Nadab was the firstborn son. Then there were Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Abihu;   Scofield Reference Index - Israel;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ithamar;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Anointing;   Eleazar;   Priest;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Worship;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Abihu;   Nadab;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Abihu;   Nadab;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Abihu;   Eleazar;   Job;   Moses;   Nadab;   Numbers, Book of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Eleazar ;   Ithamar ;   Nadab ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Camp and encamp;   Nadab;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Abi'hu;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Last Days at Sinai;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Eleazar;   Fire;   Nadab;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Abihu;   Adoption;   Hafá¹­arah;   Levi;   Nadab;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
These are the names of the sons of Aharon: Nadav the firstborn, and Avihu, El`azar, and Itamar.
King James Version
And these are the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Lexham English Bible
These are the names of the descendants of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
New Century Version
Aaron had four sons: Nadab, the oldest, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
New English Translation
These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab, the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Amplified Bible
These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
New American Standard Bible
These then are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So these are the names of the sonnes of Aaron, Nadab the first borne, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Legacy Standard Bible
These then are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
Contemporary English Version
Aaron's four sons, Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar,
Complete Jewish Bible
The names of the sons of Aharon are: Nadav the firstborn, Avihu, El‘azar and Itamar.
Darby Translation
And these are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
English Standard Version
These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
George Lamsa Translation
And these are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab, his first-born, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Good News Translation
Aaron had four sons: Nadab, the oldest, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Christian Standard Bible®
These are the names of Aaron’s sons: Nadab, the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Literal Translation
And these are the names of Aaron's sons: Nadab, the first-born; and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And these are ye names of the sonnes of Aron. The firstborne, Nadab: then Abihu, Eleasar & Ithamar.
American Standard Version
And these are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the first-born, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Bible in Basic English
These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the oldest, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And these are the names of the sonnes of Aaron: Nadab the eldest sonne, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And these are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the first-born, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
King James Version (1611)
And these are the names of the sonnes of Aaron: Nadab the first borne, and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And these are the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the first-born; and Abiud, Eleazar and Ithamar.
English Revised Version
And these are the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Berean Standard Bible
These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, then Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And these ben the names of `the sones of Aaron; his first gendrid, Nadab; aftirward, Abyu, and Eleazar, and Ythamar; these ben the names of `Aarons sones,
Young's Literal Translation
And these [are] the names of the sons of Aaron: the first-born Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar;
Update Bible Version
And these are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the first-born, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Webster's Bible Translation
And these [are] the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the first-born, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
World English Bible
These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
New King James Version
And these are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab, the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
New Living Translation
The names of Aaron's sons were Nadab (the oldest), Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
New Life Bible
The names of the sons of Aaron are Nadab the first-born, Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
New Revised Standard
These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And these, are the names of the sons of Aaron - the firstborn Nadab, - and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And these the names of the sons of Aaron: his firstborn Nadab, then Abiu, and Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Revised Standard Version
These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the first-born, and Abi'hu, Elea'zar, and Ith'amar;
THE MESSAGE
The names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar—anointed priests ordained to serve as priests. But Nadab and Abihu fell dead in the presence of God when they offered unauthorized sacrifice to him in the Wilderness of Sinai. They left no sons, and so only Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests during the lifetime of their father, Aaron.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
These then are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

Contextual Overview

1 This is the family history of Aaron and Moses at the time the Lord talked to Moses on Mount Sinai. 2 Aaron had four sons. Nadab was the firstborn son. Then there were Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 3 These sons were the chosen priests. They were given the special work of serving the Lord as priests. 4 But Nadab and Abihu died while serving the Lord . They used fire that the Lord did not allow when they made an offering to him. So Nadab and Abihu died there, in the desert of Sinai. They had no sons, so Eleazar and Ithamar took their place and served the Lord as priests. This happened while their father Aaron was still alive. 5 The Lord said to Moses, 6 "Bring all the men from the tribe of Levi. Bring them to Aaron the priest. These men will be his helpers. 7 The Levites will help him when he serves at the Meeting Tent. And they will help all the Israelites when they come to worship at the Holy Tent. 8 The Israelites should protect everything in the Meeting Tent; it is their duty. But the Levites will serve the Israelites by caring for these things. This will be their way of serving at the Holy Tent. 9 "Give the Levites to Aaron and his sons. The Levites were chosen from all the Israelites to help Aaron and his sons. 10 "Appoint Aaron and his sons to be priests. They must do their duty and serve as priests. Anyone else who tries to come near the holy things must be killed."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 26:60, Exodus 6:23, Exodus 28:1, 1 Chronicles 6:3, 1 Chronicles 24:1

Reciprocal: Numbers 17:3 - General Joshua 21:10 - General

Cross-References

Psalms 58:4
Their anger is as deadly as the poison of a snake. They shut their ears like a deaf cobra

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And these [are] the names of the sons of Aaron,.... The Targum of Jonathan adds, disciples of Moses, the master of the Israelites; none of the posterity of Moses being expressly, named; Jarchi observes, that the sons of Aaron are called the generations of Moses, because he taught them the law; for whoever, he says, teaches his neighbour's son, the law, the Scripture accounts of him as if he begat him, see 1 Corinthians 4:15;

Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar; as in Exodus 6:23.


 
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