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Numbers 26:61

Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire before Yahweh.

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    Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire before Yahweh.

  • KJV King James Version

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

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

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

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Cross-references (3)

Passages linked to Numbers 26:61 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Leviticus 10:1-2 Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered strange fire before Yahweh, which he had not commanded them. Fire came out from before Yahweh, and devoured them, and they died before Yahweh.
  • Numbers 3:4 Nadab and Abihu died before Yahweh when they offered strange fire before Yahweh in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children. Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest’s office in the presence of Aaron their father.
  • 1 Chronicles 24:1-2 These were the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest’s office.

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Explain this verse (2 sources)

Historical commentary, presented as a primary source — not an endorsement.

Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 61. Strange fire — Lev_10:1, note.

61. Strange fire — Lev_10:1, note.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 61. See on Num_3:4.

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