10:1  Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took their respective firepans, and after putting fire in them, placed incense on it and offered strange fire before the LORD, which He had not commanded them.

10:2   And fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them, and they died before the LORD.

10:3   Then Moses said to Aaron, "The LORD spoke, saying, 'By those who come near Me will I treat as holy, And before all the people you will honor me.'" So Aaron, therefore, kept silent.

10:4  Moses called also to Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Aaron's uncle Uzziel, and said to them, "Come forward, carry your relatives away from the front of the sanctuary to the outside of the camp."

10:5  So they came forward and carried them still in their tunics to the outside of the camp, as Moses had said.

10:6  Then Moses said to Aaron and to his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, " Do not uncover your heads nor tear your clothes, so that you will not die and that He will not become wrathful against all the congregation. But your kinsmen, the whole house of Israel, shall bewail the burning which the LORD has brought about.

10:7  "You shall not even go out from the doorway of the tent of meeting, or you will die; for the LORD'S anointing oil has come upon you." So they did according to the word of Moses.

10:8  The LORD then spoke to Aaron, saying,

10:9  "Do not drink wine or strong drink, neither you nor your sons with you,when you come into the tent of meeting,so that you do not die- consider it a perpetual stutute throughout your generations.

10:10   and so as to make a distinction between the holy and the profane, and between the unclean and the clean,

10:11   and so as to teach the sons of Israel all the statutes which the LORD has spoken to them through Moses."

10:12  Then Moses spoke to Aaron, and to his surviving sons, Eleazar and Ithamar, " Take the grain offering that remains from the LORD'S offerings by fire and eat it unleavened beside the altar, for we consider it most holy.

10:13  "You shall eat it, moreover, in a holy place, because you have received your due and your sons' due out of the LORD'S offerings by fire; for thus He has commanded me.

10:14   " The breast of the wave offering, however, and the thigh of the offering you may eat in a clean place, you and your sons and your daughters with you; for God has given you as your due and your sons' due out of the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the sons of Israel.

10:15  " The thigh offered by lifting up and the breast offered by waving they shall bring along with the offerings by fire of the portions of fat, to present as a wave offering before the LORD; so you shall receive this thing perpetually due you and your sons with you, just as the LORD has commanded."

10:16  But Moses searched carefully for the goat of the sin offering, and behold, it had burned up! So he became angry with Aaron's surviving sons Eleazar and Ithamar, saying,

10:17  "Why did you not eat the sin offering at the holy place? For we consider it most holy, and He gave it to you to bear away the guilt of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD.

10:18  "Behold, since they had not brought the blood inside, into the sanctuary, you should certainly have eaten it in the sanctuary, just as I commanded."

10:19  But Aaron spoke to Moses, "Behold, this very day they presented their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD. When things like these happened to me, if I had eaten a sin offering today, would the LORD have considered it good?"

10:20  When Moses heard that, it seemed good in his sight.