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    Leviticus 10

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    The priests are forbidden to mourn their brothers or leave the sanctuary, while their cousins carry the bodies away in their tunics; then Moses turns from death to the proper disposal of a goat and is satisfied by a hypothetical question.

    Fire, silence, and the cousins’ errandvv. 1–7

    Nadab and Abihu bring censers, fire, and incense before the LORD, but the fire is unauthorized. Fire comes out, consumes them, and leaves Aaron silent after Moses explains the holiness and glory revealed in their deaths. Moses then summons Mishael and Elizaphan, sons of Uzziel, to carry their cousins outside the camp, while Aaron, Eleazar, and Ithamar are forbidden to dishevel their hair, tear their garments, or leave the Tent of Meeting. The practical work belongs to the cousins; the priests must remain where they are, in their tunics and under instruction.

    The rules continuevv. 8–15

    The LORD speaks to Aaron about wine, strong drink, and the distinction between the holy and the common, the clean and the unclean. Moses then resumes the instructions: Aaron and his remaining sons are to eat the grain offering beside the altar, and the family may eat the wave offering and contribution in a ceremonially clean place. Even after the fire, the portions are assigned with admirable administrative firmness.

    The missing goat and the satisfactory answervv. 16–20

    Later, Moses searches carefully for the goat of the sin offering and discovers that it has been burned. He is angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, asking why they did not eat it in the holy place. Aaron answers that, on this very day, after the presentation of their offerings and everything that has happened to him, eating it might not have been acceptable before the LORD. Moses hears the explanation and is satisfied. A chapter that began with fire ends with a question about a meal, and the meal is the matter that receives the final word.

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    1. Lev 10:1Now Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu took their censers, put fire in them and added incense, and offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, contrary to His command.

    2. Lev 10:2So fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them, and they died in the presence of the LORD.

    3. Lev 10:3Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the LORD meant when He said: ‘To those who come near Me I will show My holiness, and in the sight of all the people I will reveal My glory.’” But Aaron remained silent.

    4. Lev 10:4Moses summoned Mishael and Elzaphan, sons of Aaron’s uncle Uzziel, and said to them, “Come here; carry the bodies of your cousins outside the camp, away from the front of the sanctuary.”

    5. Lev 10:5So they came forward and carried them, still in their tunics, outside the camp, as Moses had directed.

    6. Lev 10:6Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, “Do not let your hair become disheveled and do not tear your garments, or else you will die, and the LORD will be angry with the whole congregation. But your brothers, the whole house of Israel, may mourn on account of the fire that the LORD has ignited.

    7. Lev 10:7You shall not go outside the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, or you will die, for the LORD’s anointing oil is on you.” So they did as Moses instructed.

    8. Lev 10:8Then the LORD said to Aaron,

    9. Lev 10:9“You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink when you enter the Tent of Meeting, or else you will die; this is a permanent statute for the generations to come.

    10. Lev 10:10You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean,

    11. Lev 10:11so that you may teach the Israelites all the statutes that the LORD has given them through Moses.”

    12. Lev 10:12And Moses said to Aaron and his remaining sons, Eleazar and Ithamar, “Take the grain offering that remains from the food offerings to the LORD and eat it without leaven beside the altar, because it is most holy.

    13. Lev 10:13You shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your share and your sons’ share of the food offerings to the LORD; for this is what I have been commanded.

    14. Lev 10:14And you and your sons and daughters may eat the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution in a ceremonially clean place, because these portions have been assigned to you and your children from the peace offerings of the sons of Israel.

    15. Lev 10:15They are to bring the thigh of the contribution and the breast of the wave offering, together with the fat portions of the food offerings, to wave as a wave offering before the LORD. It will belong permanently to you and your children, as the LORD has commanded.”

    16. Lev 10:16Later, Moses searched carefully for the goat of the sin offering, and behold, it had been burned up. He was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s remaining sons, and asked,

    17. Lev 10:17“Why didn’t you eat the sin offering in the holy place? For it is most holy; it was given to you to take away the guilt of the congregation by making atonement for them before the LORD.

    18. Lev 10:18Since its blood was not brought inside the holy place, you should have eaten it in the sanctuary area, as I commanded.”

    19. Lev 10:19But Aaron replied to Moses, “Behold, this very day they presented their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD. Since these things have happened to me, if I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been acceptable in the sight of the LORD?”

    20. Lev 10:20And when Moses heard this explanation, he was satisfied.

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    • 3Exodus 19:22Even the priests who approach the LORD must consecrate themselves, or the LORD will break out against them.”
    • 1Numbers 26:61but Nadab and Abihu died when they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD.
    • 10Ezekiel 22:26Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
    • 3Isaiah 49:3He said to Me, “You are My Servant, Israel, in whom I will display My glory.”
    • 101 Peter 1:14–16As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.
    • 1Deuteronomy 12:32See that you do everything I command you; do not add to it or subtract from it.
    • 3Leviticus 21:6They must be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God. Because they present to the LORD the food offerings, the food of their God, they must be holy.
    • 1Leviticus 16:12Then he must take a censer full of burning coals from the altar before the LORD, and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense, and take them inside the veil.
    • 3Numbers 20:12But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust Me to show My holiness in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.”
    • 10Leviticus 11:47You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between animals that may be eaten and those that may not.’”
    • 9Luke 1:15for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He shall never take wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother’s womb.
    • 10Titus 1:15To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
    • 10Ezekiel 44:23They are to teach My people the difference between the holy and the common and show them how to discern between the clean and the unclean.
    • 1Numbers 16:46Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has begun.”
    • 1Exodus 6:23And Aaron married Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
    • 1Exodus 24:1Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD—you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders—and you are to worship at a distance.

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