1Then the sons of Aaron—Nadab and Abihu—each took his censer, put fire in them, placed incense on it, and presented before the LORD fire that was strange, which he had not commanded them.2Fire came out from before the LORD and consumed them, and they died before the LORD.3Moses said to Aaron, "This is what the LORD spoke, saying, 'Among those near to me I will consecrate myself, and before all the people I will be honored.'" So Aaron was silent.4Moses called to Mishael and to Elizaphan, sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said to them, "Approach, lift your brothers away from before the sanctuary to a place outside the camp."5They approached and carried them out in their tunics to a place outside the camp, just as Moses had spoken.6Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and to Ithamar his sons, "Do not let your heads be unbound and do not tear your garments, lest you die and he be angry with all the congregation; but let your brothers, all the house of Israel, weep for the burning that the LORD burned."7"And from the entrance of the tent of meeting you shall not go out, lest you die, for the anointing oil of the LORD is upon you." And they did according to the word of Moses.8The LORD spoke to Aaron, saying:9You and your sons must not drink wine or strong drink when you enter the tent of meeting, lest you die. It is a statute forever throughout your generations.10You are to distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean,11and to teach the sons of Israel all the statutes that the LORD spoke to them by the hand of Moses.12Moses spoke to Aaron and to Eleazar and to Ithamar his remaining sons: Take the remaining grain offering from the LORD's food offerings and eat it unleavened beside the altar, because it is most holy.13You shall eat it in a holy place, for it is your portion and your sons' portion from the LORD's food offerings, for so I have been commanded.14The breast of the wave offering and the leg of the contribution you shall eat in a clean place, you and your sons and your daughters with you, for it is your portion and your sons' portion; it has been given from the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the sons of Israel.15The leg of the contribution and the breast of the wave offering they shall bring with the food offerings of the fat portions to wave as a wave offering before the LORD, and it shall be for you and for your sons with you as a statute forever, just as the LORD commanded.16And the sin-offering he-goat Moses sought and sought, and behold, it was burned; and he was angry with Eleazar and with Ithamar, the remaining sons of Aaron, saying,17"Why did you not eat the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary? For it is most holy, and he gave it to you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD."18"Behold, its blood was not brought into the inner sanctuary; you should certainly have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded."19Aaron said to Moses, "Behold, today they presented their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD, and these things happened to me. If I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been good in the eyes of the LORD?"20When Moses heard, it was good in his eyes.