Nadab and Abihu
The two sons of Aaron the High Priest in the Abrahamic religions
In the biblical books of Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers, Nadab and Abihu were the two oldest sons of Aaron (Numbers 3:2, Numbers 26:60). According to Third reading—Leviticus 9:24–10:11|Leviticus 10, they offered a sacrifice with "foreign fire" before Yahweh, disobeying his instructions, and were immediately consumed by fire.
Quotes about
edit- Then Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it, put incense on it, and offered profane fire before the Lord, which He had not commanded them. So fire went out from the Lord and devoured them, and they died before the Lord. And Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord spoke, saying:
- ‘By those who come near Me
- I must be regarded as holy;
- And before all the people
- I must be glorified.’ ”
- So Aaron held his peace.
- Leviticus 10,1-3 (NKJV).
