Leviticus 10

¹Now Nadab and Abihu , the sons of Aaron , each took his censer and put fire in it and laid incense on it and offered unauthorized fire before the Lord, which he had not commanded them.

²And fire came out from before the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord.

³Then Moses said to Aaron , This is what the Lord has said : Among those who are near me I will be sanctified , and before all the people I will be glorified . And Aaron held his peace .

⁴And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan , the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron , and said to them, Come near ; carry your brothers away from the front of the sanctuary and out of the camp .

⁵So they came near and carried them in their coats out of the camp , as Moses had said .

⁶And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar his sons , Do not let the hair of your heads hang loose , and do not tear your clothes , lest you die , and wrath come upon all the congregation ; but let your brothers , the whole house of Israel , bewail the burning that the Lord has kindled .

⁷And do not go outside 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 .

⁸And the Lord spoke to Aaron , saying ,

⁹Drink no wine or strong drink , you or your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting , lest you die . It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations .

¹⁰You are to distinguish between the holy and the common , and between the unclean and the clean ,

¹¹and you are to teach the people of Israel all the statutes that the Lord has spoken to them by Moses .

¹²Moses spoke to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar , his surviving sons : Take the grain offering that is left of the Lord ’s food offerings , and eat it unleavened beside the altar , for it is most holy .

¹³You shall eat it in a holy place , because it is your due and your sons ’ due , from the Lord ’s food offerings , for so I am commanded .

¹⁴But the breast that is waved and the thigh that is contributed you shall eat in a clean place , you and your sons and your daughters with you, for they are given as your due and your sons ’ due from the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the people of Israel .

¹⁵The thigh that is contributed and the breast that is waved they shall bring with the food offerings of the fat pieces to wave for a wave offering before the Lord, and it shall be yours and your sons ’ with you as a due forever , as the Lord has commanded .

¹⁶Now Moses diligently inquired about the goat of the sin offering , and behold , it was burned up ! And he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar , the surviving sons of Aaron , saying ,

¹⁷Why have you not eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary , since it is a thing most holy and has been given to you that you may bear the iniquity of the congregation , to make atonement for them before the Lord?

¹⁸Behold , its blood was not brought into the inner part of the sanctuary . You certainly ought to have eaten it in the sanctuary , as I commanded .

¹⁹And Aaron said to Moses , Behold , today they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the Lord, and yet such things as these have happened to me! If I had eaten the sin offering today , would the Lord have approved ?

²⁰And when Moses heard that, he approved .