Leviticus 9:22 -- 10:11 (NRSV)
9:22Aaron
lifted his hands toward the people and blessed them; and he came down after
sacrificing the sin offering, the burnt offering, and the offering of well-being.
23Moses and Aaron entered the tent of meeting, and then came out
and blessed the people; and the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people.
24Fire came out from the LORD and consumed the burnt offering
and the fat on the altar; and when all the people saw it, they shouted and
fell on their faces. 10:1Now Aaron's sons, Nadab and
Abihu, each took his censer, put fire in it, and laid incense on it; and
they offered unholy fire before the LORD, such as he had not commanded them.
2And fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed
them, and they died before the LORD. 3Then Moses said to Aaron,
"This is what the LORD meant when he said, 4Moses summoned Mishael and Elzaphan,
sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said to them, "Come forward,
and carry your kinsmen away from the front of the sanctuary to a place outside
the camp." 5They came forward and carried them by their tunics
out of the camp, as Moses had ordered. 6And Moses said to Aaron
and to his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, "Do not dishevel your hair, and
do not tear your vestments, or you will die and wrath will strike all the
congregation; but your kindred, the whole house of Israel, may mourn the
burning that the LORD has sent. 7You shall not go outside the
entrance of the tent of meeting, or you will die; for the anointing oil of
the LORD is on you." And they did as Moses had ordered. 8And
the LORD spoke to Aaron: 9Drink no wine or strong drink, neither
you nor your sons, when you enter the tent of meeting, that you may not die;
it is 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 through Moses.
'Through those who are
near me
I will show myself holy,
and before all the people
I
will be glorified.'"
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