3 others in the registry answer to the name Nadab. Every Nadab in the Bible
- verses
- 12
- first named
- Exodus 6:23
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 24:2
- period
- Egypt and Wilderness
- tribe
- Levi
Description
Who was Nadab?
Nadab was the eldest son of Aaron, the first High Priest of Israel, and his wife Elisheba (Exo.6.23). Along with his brothers Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, Nadab was consecrated as a priest to serve in the Tabernacle (Exo.28.1).
Nadab, along with his brother Abihu and seventy elders of Israel, accompanied Moses partway up Mount Sinai when the Lord made His covenant with the people (Exo.24.1,9). There, they saw a manifestation of God's presence and ate and drank in His presence.
However, Nadab and Abihu later committed a grave offense by offering unauthorized fire (incense) before the Lord, which He had not commanded them to do (Lev.10.1). As a result, fire came out from the presence of the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord (Lev.10.2; Num.3.4; 26.61).
This tragic event served as a sobering reminder to the Israelites of the importance of following God's commands precisely, especially in matters related to worship and the priesthood. After their death, Eleazar and Ithamar took over their priestly duties under the direction of their father, Aaron (Num.3.4; 1Ch.24.2).
The story of Nadab and Abihu underscores the holiness of God and the seriousness with which He regards the proper worship and service of His people. It also highlights the importance of obedience and the consequences of disregarding God's clear instructions.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
The 10 best-attested of 12 are drawn. All 12 are listed below.
Child of
- AaronregistryExodus 6:23Leviticus 10:1Numbers 3:2 +4
- ElishebaregistryExodus 6:23
Sibling of
Stands in the same events as
Places
Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
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The pattern
Where Nadab is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
12 verses across 4 of 66 books; 62 write the name nowhere. Named in Exodus (4), Leviticus (1), Numbers (4) and 1 Chronicles (3).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 12, across 4 books.
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- Exodus 24Nadab went up with Moses, Aaron, Abihu, and the elders, and saw the God of Israel.
- Exodus 28Nadab was brought with Aaron’s sons to serve as a priest and was given the garments appointed for Aaron’s sons.
- Leviticus 10Nadab takes a censer, adds incense to its fire, and offers unauthorized fire before the LORD.
- Numbers 3Nadab offered unauthorized fire before the LORD and died in the LORD’s presence.
- 1 Chronicles 24Nadab died before his father and left no sons.
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