Numbers 26:61

Listen to Numbers 26:61
61 but Nadab and Abihu died when they offered unauthorized [a] fire before the LORD.

Numbers 26:61 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 26:61

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Numbers 26:61 In-Context

59 and Amram’s wife was named Jochebed. She was also a daughter of Levi, born to Levi in Egypt. To Amram she bore Aaron, Moses, and their sister Miriam.
60 Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar were born to Aaron,
61 but Nadab and Abihu died when they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD.
62 The registration of the Levites totaled 23,000, every male a month old or more; they were not numbered among the other Israelites, because no inheritance was given to them among the Israelites.
63 These were the ones numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest when they counted the Israelites on the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho.

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