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Numbers 26:61

in Numbers 26

but Nadab and Abihu died when they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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This verse in Numbers 26

Commentary

1 note on this verse

This site's exposition

And these are they that were numbered of the Levites

on Numbers 26:57-62

Levi is counted apart, as in chapter 3, and by another rule, every male from a month old and upward rather than every man of twenty able to fight. Verse 62 gives the reason in the same breath, that there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel. The roll stops at Amram's house to name Jochebed, and at Aaron's to record that Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire, which Leviticus 10:1-2 tells. Levi comes to twenty and three thousand, a thousand more than at Sinai.

The words behind it

8 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיָּ֥מָתand he died

    vaiyamotH4191 →839 times

  • נָדָ֖בNadab

    nadavH5070 →20 times

  • וַאֲבִיה֑וּאand Abihu

    vaavihu'H30 →12 times

  • בְּהַקְרִיבָ֥םwhen brought near they

    behakrivamH7126 →280 times

  • אֵשׁ־fire

    ʾesh-H784 →378 times

  • זָרָ֖הstrange

    zarahH2114 →77 times

  • לִפְנֵ֥י<to> before

    lifneiH6440 →2123 times

  • יְהוָֽה׃Yahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

6 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Leviticus 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.15 worksLeviticus 10:2So fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them, and they died in the presence of the LORD.10 worksNumbers 3:4Nadab and Abihu, however, died in the presence of the LORD when they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD in the Wilderness of Sinai. And since they had no sons, only Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests during the lifetime of their father Aaron.5 works1 Chronicles 24:2But Nadab and Abihu died before their father did, and they had no sons; so Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests.3 worksExodus 28:1“Next, have your brother Aaron brought to you from among the Israelites, along with his sons Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, to serve Me as priests.3 works1 Chronicles 24:1–2These were the divisions of the descendants of Aaron. The sons of Aaron were Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.2 works

The walk

1 stop

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Numbers 3:4

    Nadab and Abihu, however, died in the presence of the LORD when they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD in the Wilderness of Sinai. And since they had no sons, only Eleazar and Ithamar…

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 10:1–2

      Now 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.

About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.

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