Numbers 3:4; Leviticus 10:1–2; 1 Chronicles 24:2

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Numbers 3:4

gBut Nadab and Abihu died before the Lord when they offered unauthorized fire before the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children. So Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests in the lifetime of Aaron their father.


Leviticus 10:1–2

The Death of Nadab and Abihu

Now yNadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, zeach took his censer and put fire in it and laid incense on it and offered aunauthorized1 fire before the Lord, which he had not commanded them. And fire bcame out from before the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord.


1 Chronicles 24:2

jBut Nadab and Abihu died before their father and had no children, so Eleazar and Ithamar became the priests.