1 En die seuns van A„ron, Nadab en Ab¡hu, het elkeen sy vuurpan geneem en vuur daarin gegooi en reukwerk daarop gesit en vreemde vuur voor die aangesig van die HERE gebring, wat Hy hulle nie beveel het nie.

2 Daarop het daar vuur van die aangesig van die HERE uitgegaan en hulle verteer, en hulle het gesterwe voor die aangesig van die HERE.

3 Toe sê Moses vir A„ron: Dit is dit wat die HERE gespreek het deur te sê: In die wat naby My is, wil Ek My as die Heilige laat ken, en voor die oë van die hele volk wil Ek My verheerlik. Maar A„ron het stilgebly.

4 En Moses het M¡sael en lsafan, die seuns van Uss¡ël, die oom van A„ron, geroep en aan hulle gesê: Kom nader, dra julle broers van die heiligdom af weg, buitekant die laer uit.

5 Toe het hulle nader gekom en hulle in hul rokke buitekant die laer uitgedra soos Moses gesê het.

6 Daarop sê Moses aan A„ron en sy seuns Ele sar en Itamar: Laat julle hare nie loshang nie en maak geen skeure in julle klere nie, dat julle nie sterwe en Hy in toorn teen die hele vergadering losbreek nie. Maar julle broers, die hele huis van Israel, kan die brand beween wat die HERE aangesteek het.

7 Julle mag ook uit die ingang van die tent van samekoms nie uitgaan nie, dat julle nie sterwe nie; want die salfolie van die HERE is op julle. En hulle het gehandel ooreenkomstig die woord van Moses.

8 En die HERE het met A„ron gespreek en gesê:

9 Moenie wyn of sterk drank drink nie, jy of jou seuns saam met jou as julle in die tent van samekoms ingaan, dat julle nie sterwe nie; 'n ewige insetting is dit vir julle geslagte;

10 en julle moet onderskeid maak tussen wat heilig en wat onheilig, en tussen wat onrein en wat rein is;

11 en julle moet die kinders van Israel leer al die insettinge wat die HERE deur die diens van Moses aan hulle verkondig het.

12 En Moses het met A„ron gespreek en met sy seuns Ele sar en Itamar wat oorgebly het: Neem die spysoffer wat van die vuuroffers van die HERE oorgebly het, en eet dit as ongesuurde koeke langs die altaar; want dit is hoogheilig.

13 Daarom moet julle dit op 'n heilige plek eet, want dit is wat aan jou en jou seuns toekom uit die vuuroffers van die HERE; want so is aan my bevel gegee.

14 Ook die beweegbors en die hefboud moet julle op 'n rein plek eet, jy en jou seuns en jou dogters saam met jou; want as deel wat aan jou en jou seuns toekom, is hulle uit die dankoffers van die kinders van Israel gegee.

15 Die hefboud en die beweegbors moet hulle saam met die vuuroffers van die stukke vet bring om as beweegoffer voor die aangesig van die HERE te beweeg; en dit sal vir jou en jou seuns saam met jou 'n deel wees wat aan julle vir ewig toekom soos die HERE beveel het.

16 En Moses het rondgesoek na die sondofferbok, maar dit was verbrand! Daarom was hy baie kwaad vir Ele sar en Itamar, die seuns van A„ron wat oorgebly het; en hy het gesê:

17 Waarom het julle die sondoffer nie op 'n heilige plek geëet nie? Want dit is hoogheilig, en Hy het dit aan julle gegee om die ongeregtigheid van die vergadering weg te neem, om versoening vir hulle te doen voor die aangesig van die HERE.

18 Kyk, die bloed daarvan is nie binne in die heiligdom gebring nie. Julle moes dit sekerlik in die heiligdom geëet het soos ek beveel het.

19 Toe sê A„ron vir Moses: Kyk, hulle het vandag hul sondoffer en hul brandoffer voor die aangesig van die HERE gebring, en sulke dinge het my oorgekom; as ek vandag sondoffer geëet het, sou dit goed gewees het in die oë van die HERE?

20 Toe Moses dit hoor, was dit goed in sy oë.

1 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took their vessels and put fire in them and perfume, burning strange fire before the Lord, which he had not given them orders to do.

2 And fire came out from before the Lord, burning them up and causing their destruction before the Lord.

3 Then Moses said to Aaron, This is what the Lord said, I will be holy in the eyes of all those who come near to me, and I will be honoured before all the people. And Aaron said nothing.

4 And Moses sent for Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel, the brother of Aaron's father, and said to them, Come near and take your brothers away from before the holy place, outside the tent-circle.

5 So they came and took them, in their coats, outside the tent-circle, as Moses had said.

6 And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons, Do not let your hair be loose, and give no signs of grief; so that death may not overtake you, and his wrath come on all the people; but let there be weeping among your brothers and all the house of Israel for this burning of the Lord's fire.

7 And do not go out from the door of the Tent of meeting, or death will come to you; for the holy oil of the Lord is on you. And they did as Moses said.

8 And the Lord said to Aaron:

9 Take no wine, or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the Tent of meeting, that it may not be the cause of death to you; this is an order for ever through all your generations.

10 And make a division between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;

11 Teaching the children of Israel all the laws which the Lord has given them by the hand of Moses.

12 And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons who were still living, Take the rest of the meal offering from the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and take it for your food, without leaven, at the side of the altar, for it is most holy.

13 It is to be for your food in a holy place, because it is your right and your sons' right, from the offerings of the Lord made by fire: for so am I ordered.

14 And the breast which is waved and the leg which is lifted up on high, you are to take as your food in a clean place; you and your sons and your daughters with you: for they are given to you as your right and your sons' right, from the peace-offerings of the children of Israel.

15 Let them take the breast which is waved and the leg which is lifted up on high, with the fat of the burned offering, to be waved for a wave offering before the Lord; and this will be for you and for your sons with you, for a right for ever, as the Lord has given orders.

16 And Moses was looking for the goat of the sin-offering, but it was burned; and he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron, who were still living, saying,

17 Why did you not make a meal of the sin-offering in the holy place? For it is most holy and he has given it to you, so that the sin of the people may be put on it, to take away their sin before the Lord.

18 See, its blood was not taken into the holy place: certainly it was right for you to have taken it as food in the holy place, as I gave orders.

19 And Aaron said to Moses, You have seen that today they have made their sin-offering and their burned offering before the Lord, and such things as these have come on me. If I had taken the sin-offering as food today, would it have been pleasing to the Lord?

20 And after hearing this, Moses was no longer angry.