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Numbers 26:60–61

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And unto Aaron was born Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the Lord.
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From verse 60

  1. Numbers 3:2Rank 1 from verse 60
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    2And these are the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

  2. Numbers 3:8Rank 2 from verse 60
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    8And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.

From verse 61

  1. Leviticus 10:1–2Rank 1 from verse 61
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    1AND 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.

    2And there went out fire from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.

  2. Numbers 3:4Rank 2 from verse 61
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    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.

  3. 1 Chronicles 24:1–2Rank 3 from verse 61
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    1NOW these are the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

    2But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest’s office.

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Numbers 26:61

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offered

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of offer, meaning to present, bring, give, propose, or attempt.

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strange

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Foreign; belonging to another country. Wonderful; causing surprise; exciting curiosity.

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fire

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Burning flame and heat that gives light, consumes, purifies, or destroys.

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before

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Earlier than in time; in front of; in the presence of; or prior in order or rank.

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59And 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.

60And unto Aaron was born Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

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61And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the Lord.

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62And 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.

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