Numbers 26:61

61 Death overtook Nadab and Abihu when they made an offering of strange fire before the Lord.

Numbers 26:61 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 26:61

(See Gill on Numbers 26:57)

Numbers 26:61 In-Context

59 Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom he had in Egypt: by Amram she had Moses and Aaron and their sister Miriam.
60 Aaron's sons were Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
61 Death overtook Nadab and Abihu when they made an offering of strange fire before the Lord.
62 Of these, twenty-three thousand males, from one month old and over, were numbered: they were not numbered with the rest of the children of Israel, for they had no heritage among the children of Israel.
63 All these were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest when the children of Israel were numbered in the lowlands of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
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