Leviticus
10
- Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu took their
censers, put fire in them and added incense; and they offered unauthorized
fire before the LORD, contrary to his command.
- So fire came out from the presence of the
LORD and consumed them, and they died before the LORD.
- Moses then said to Aaron, "This is
what the LORD spoke of when he said: "'Among those who approach me I
will show myself holy; in the sight of all the people I will be honored.'"
Aaron remained silent.
- Moses summoned Mishael and Elzaphan, sons
of Aaron's uncle Uzziel, and said to them, "Come here; carry your cousins
outside the camp, away from the front of the sanctuary."
- So they came and carried them, still in
their tunics, outside the camp, as Moses ordered.
- Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar
and Ithamar, "Do not let your hair become unkempt, and do not tear your
clothes, or you will die and the LORD will be angry with the whole community.
But your relatives, all the house of Israel, may mourn for those the LORD
has destroyed by fire.
- Do not leave the entrance to the Tent of
Meeting or you will die, because the LORD'S anointing oil is on you."
So they did as Moses said.
- Then the LORD said to Aaron,
- "You and your sons are not to drink
wine or other fermented drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or
you will die. This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.
- You must distinguish between the holy and
the common, between the unclean and the clean,
- and you must teach the Israelites all the
decrees the LORD has given them through Moses."
- Moses said to Aaron and his remaining sons,
Eleazar and Ithamar, "Take the grain offering left over from the offerings
made to the LORD by fire and eat it prepared without yeast beside the altar,
for it is most holy.
- Eat it in a holy place, because it is your
share and your sons' share of the offerings made to the LORD by fire; for
so I have been commanded.
- But you and your sons and your daughters
may eat the breast that was waved and the thigh that was presented. Eat them
in a ceremonially clean place; they have been given to you and your children
as your share of the Israelites' fellowship offerings.
- The thigh that was presented and the breast
that was waved must be brought with the fat portions of the offerings made
by fire, to be waved before the LORD as a wave offering. This will be the
regular share for you and your children, as the LORD has commanded."
- When Moses inquired about the goat of the
sin offering and found that it had been burned up, he was angry with Eleazar
and Ithamar, Aaron's remaining sons, and asked,
- "Why didn't you eat the sin offering
in the sanctuary area? It is most holy; it was given to you to take away the
guilt of the community by making atonement for them before the LORD.
- Since its blood was not taken into the Holy
Place, you should have eaten the goat in the sanctuary area, as I commanded."
- Aaron replied to Moses, "Today they
sacrificed their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD, but
such things as this have happened to me. Would the LORD have been pleased
if I had eaten the sin offering today ?"
- When Moses heard this, he was satisfied.
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