1 Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer, and put fire in it, and laid incense on it, and offered strange fire before Yahweh, which he had not commanded them. 2 Fire came out from before Yahweh, and devoured them, and they died before Yahweh.

3 Then Moses said to Aaron, "This is what Yahweh spoke of, saying,

‘I will show myself holy to those who come near me,

and before all the people I will be glorified.’"

Aaron held his peace. 4 Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said to them, "Draw near, carry your brothers from before the sanctuary out of the camp." 5 So they came near, and carried them in their tunics out of the camp, as Moses had said.

6 Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, "Don’t let the hair of your heads go loose, and don’t tear your clothes, so that you don’t die, and so that he will not be angry with all the congregation; but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which Yahweh has kindled. 7 You shall not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting, lest you die; for the anointing oil of Yahweh is on you." They did according to the word of Moses. 8 Then Yahweh said to Aaron, 9 "You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die. This shall be a statute forever throughout your generations. 10 You are to make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean. 11 You are to teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Yahweh has spoken to them by Moses."

12 Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons who were left, "Take the meal offering that remains of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, and eat it without yeast beside the altar; for it is most holy; 13 and you shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your portion, and your sons’ portion, of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire; for so I am commanded. 14 The waved breast and the heaved thigh you shall eat in a clean place, you, and your sons, and your daughters with you: for they are given as your portion, and your sons’ portion, out of the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the children of Israel. 15 They shall bring the heaved thigh and the waved breast with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before Yahweh. It shall be yours, and your sons’ with you, as a portion forever, as Yahweh has commanded."

16 Moses diligently inquired about the goat of the sin offering, and, behold, it was burned. He was angry with Eleazar and with Ithamar, the sons of Aaron who were left, saying, 17 "Why haven’t you eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, since it is most holy, and he has given it to you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before Yahweh? 18 Behold, its blood was not brought into the inner part of the sanctuary. You certainly should have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded."

19 Aaron spoke to Moses, "Behold, today they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before Yahweh; and such things as these have happened to me. If I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been pleasing in Yahweh’s sight?"

20 When Moses heard that, it was pleasing in his sight.

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.