KJV King James Version
And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD.
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Numbers 26:61
And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
but Nadab and Abihu died when they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD.
WEB World English Bible
Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before Yahweh.
ASV American Standard Version
And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before Jehovah.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and Nadab dieth—Abihu also—in their bringing near strange fire before Jehovah.
Surrounding context — Numbers 26
58 These [are] the families of the Levites: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korathites. And Kohath begat Amram.
59 And the name of Amram’s wife [was] Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom [her mother] bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
60 And unto Aaron was born Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
61 And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD.
62 And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.
63 These [are] they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan [near] Jericho.
64 But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
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Leviticus 10:1-2And 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.Numbers 3:4And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest’s office in the sight of Aaron their father.1 Chronicles 24:1-2Now [these are] the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
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