Numbers 3:4
Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD when they offered strange fire before the LORD in the desert of Sinai, and they had no children. So Eleazar and Ithamar ministered as priests in the presence of Aaron their father.
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- Lev 10:1-2 : 1 Nadab and Abihu Then Aaron’s sons, Nadab and Abihu, each took his fire pan and put fire in it, set incense on it, and presented strange fire before the LORD, which he had not commanded them to do. 2 So fire went out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them so that they died before the LORD.
- Num 26:61 : 61 But Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire before the LORD.
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2 So fire went out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them so that they died before the LORD.
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