Nadav and Avihu

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This entry incorporates text from the public domain Easton's Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897.


Nadab (Hebrew: נדב, Nadav ; "generous, giving") and Abihu (Hebrew: אביהוא, Avihu ; "He [God] is my father") were respectively the eldest and second oldest of the sons of Aaron.[1][2][3] They were consecrated to the priest's office along with their brothers Eleazar and Ithamar.[4] With their father, Nadab and Abihu accompanied the seventy elders part of the way up the mount with Moses.[5]

Following the inauguration of the Tabernacle, Nadab and Abihu offered incense in their censers filled with "strange" fire, i.e., not with holy fire taken from the great brazen altar,[6] and for this offense they were immediately consumed by a fire from before God., and were taken out and buried outside the camp.[7][8]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Exodus 6:23
  2. ^ Numbers 3:2, 26:60
  3. ^ I Chronicles 5:29)
  4. ^ Exodus 28:1
  5. ^ Exodus 24:1, 24:9
  6. ^ Leviticus 6:9, etc.
  7. ^ Leviticus 10:1-11
  8. ^ compare Numbers 3:4; 26:61; I Chronicles 24:2)
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