Leviticus 10

¹And the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, each took his censer and put fire in them, and placed incense upon it, and brought before the LORD unauthorized fire, 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 spoke, saying: Through those who are near me I will show myself holy, and before all the people I will be honored." And Aaron was silent.

⁴And Moses called to Mishael and to Elizaphan, sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said to them, "Come near, carry your brothers from before the sanctuary to outside the camp."

⁵And they came near and carried them in their tunics to outside the camp, as Moses had spoken.

⁶And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and to Ithamar his sons: Do not let your heads go disheveled, and do not tear your garments, lest you die, and lest wrath come upon all the congregation; but your brothers, the whole house of Israel, shall weep over the burning that the LORD has burned.

⁷And from the entrance of the tent of meeting you shall not go out, 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,

⁹Wine and strong drink you shall not drink, you and your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, lest you die — a perpetual statute throughout your generations.

¹⁰and to make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean,

¹¹and to instruct the children of Israel in all the statutes that the LORD spoke to them by the hand of Moses.

¹²And Moses spoke to Aaron and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons who remained: Take the grain offering that remains from the food offerings of the LORD, and eat it unleavened beside the altar, for it is most holy.

¹³And you shall eat it in a holy place, for it is your portion and your sons' portion from the food offerings of the LORD, for so I have been commanded.

¹⁴And the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution you shall eat in a clean place, you and your sons and your daughters with you; for as your portion and your sons' portion they have been given from the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the sons of Israel.

¹⁵The thigh of the contribution and the breast of the wave offering they shall bring with the food offerings of the fats, to wave as a wave offering before the LORD; and it shall be for you and for your sons with you as a perpetual statute, as the LORD commanded.

¹⁶And the goat of the sin offering Moses diligently sought, and behold, it had been burned. And he was angry at Eleazar and at Ithamar, the remaining sons of Aaron, saying,

¹⁷Why did you not eat the sin offering in the holy place? For it is most holy, and he gave it to you all to carry the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD.

¹⁸Behold, its blood was not brought into the sanctuary within; you certainly should have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded.

¹⁹And Aaron spoke to Moses: Behold, today they presented their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD, and things such as these have met me; and if I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been good in the eyes of the LORD?

²⁰And Moses heard, and it was good in his eyes.