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Now ^(a)Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took their respective ^(b)firepans, and after putting fire in them, placed incense on it and offered strange fire before the Lord , which He had not commanded them.

^(c)And fire came out from the presence of the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord .

Then Moses said to Aaron, "It is what the Lord spoke, saying, ‘By those who ^(d)come near Me I ^[a](e)will be treated as holy, And before all the people I will ^(f)be honored.'" So Aaron, therefore, kept silent.

Moses called also to ^(g)Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Aaron's uncle Uzziel, and said to them, "Come forward, carry your ^[b]relatives away from the front of the sanctuary to the outside of the camp."

So they came forward and carried them still in their ^(h)tunics to the outside of the camp, as Moses had said.

Then Moses said to Aaron and to his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, "⁽ⁱ⁾Do not ^[c]uncover your heads nor tear your clothes, so that you will not die and that He will not ^(j)become wrathful against all the congregation. But your ^[d]kinsmen, the whole house of Israel, shall bewail the burning which the Lord has ^[e]brought about.

You shall not even go out from the doorway of the tent of meeting, or you will die; for ^(k)the Lord's anointing oil is upon you." So they did according to the word of Moses.