The Anselm Project

Chapter 10

¹ And Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu each took his censer and put fire in it, put incense on it, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he had not commanded them. ² And fire went out from before the LORD and consumed them, and they died before the LORD. ³ Moses said to Aaron, "This is what the LORD spoke, saying, 'Among those near me I will be sanctified, and before all the people I will be glorified.'" And Aaron was silent. ⁴ And Moses called to Mishael and to Elzaphan, sons of Uzziel, uncle of Aaron, and said to them, "Come near, carry your brothers away from before the Divine sanctification to outside the camp." ⁵ They came near and carried them away in their tunics outside the camp, just as Moses had said. ⁶ And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, "Do not dishevel your heads or tear your garments, or you will die. He will be angry with the whole congregation, but all your brothers, the whole house of Israel, will weep for the burning which the LORD has kindled." ⁷ Do not go out from the entrance of the tent of meeting, lest you die, for the anointing oil of the LORD is upon you. And they did according to the word of Moses. ⁸ The LORD spoke to Aaron, saying: ⁹ You and your sons with you shall not drink wine or strong drink when you come to the tent of meeting, so that you do not die. It is a perpetual statute for your generations. ¹⁰ and to distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the pure. ¹¹ And to teach the sons of Israel all the statutes which the LORD spoke to them by the hand of Moses. ¹² And Moses spoke to Aaron and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his remaining sons: "Take the remaining offering from the fires of the LORD and eat it unleavened beside the altar, for it is a holy of holies." ¹³ And you shall eat it in the holy place, because it is your statute and the statute of your sons from the LORD's fire offerings, because in this way I have commanded. ¹⁴ And the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering you shall eat in a clean place—you and your sons and your daughters with you. For they have given them as your statute and the statute of your sons from the altars of the peace offerings of the sons of Israel. ¹⁵ The thigh of the contribution and the breast of the wave offering, upon the fires of the fat portions, they shall bring to wave 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. ¹⁶ And the goat of the sin offering Moses sought, sought, and behold, it was burned up. And he was angry against Eleazar and against Ithamar, the remaining sons of Aaron, to say: ¹⁷ Why did you not eat the sin offering in the holy place, 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 Look, its blood was not brought inside the holy place. You shall eat it, the holy thing, in the holy place, just as I commanded. ¹⁹ And Aaron said to Moses, "Look, today they offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD, and such things have happened to me. If I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been good in the eyes of the LORD?" ²⁰ And Moses heard, and it was good in his eyes.