Numbers 26 · Verse 61

Numbers 26:61

And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the Lord.
Numbers 26:61, King James Version

Numbers 26:61 in other translations

BSBbut Nadab and Abihu died when they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD.
WEBNadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire before the LORD.
ASVAnd Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before Jehovah.
YLTand Nadab dieth--Abihu also--in their bringing near strange fire before Jehovah.
DARBYAnd Nadab and Abihu died, when they presented strange fire before Jehovah.
BBEDeath overtook Nadab and Abihu when they made an offering of strange fire before the Lord.
WebsterAnd Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD.

What does Numbers 26:61 mean?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 26:57-62

Levi was God's tribe; therefore it was not numbered with the rest, but alone. It came not under the sentence, that none of them should enter Canaan excepting Caleb and Joshua.

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Numbers 26:61 in the original Hebrew

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וַיָּ֥מָתvai.Ya.motand he diedH4191
נָדָ֖בna.DavNadabH5070
וַאֲבִיה֑וּאva.'a.vi.Hu'and AbihuH30
בְּהַקְרִיבָ֥םbe.hak.ri.Vamwhen brought near theyH7126
אֵשׁ\־'esh-fireH784
זָרָ֖הza.RahstrangeH2114
לִפְנֵ֥יlif.Nei<to> beforeH6440
יְהוָֽה\׃Yah.wehYahwehH3068

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Cross references for Numbers 26:61

  • Numbers 3:4

    And Nadab and Abihu died before the Lord, when they offered strange fire before the Lord, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest’s office in the sight of Aaron their father.

  • Leviticus 10:1-2

    And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which he commanded them not. And there went out fire from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.

  • 1 Chronicles 24:1-2

    Now these are the divisions of the sons of Aaron. The sons of Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest’s office.

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3:4; Le 10:1,2; 1Ch 24:1,2

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Context

  • Numbers 26:60

    And unto Aaron was born Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

  • Numbers 26:61

    And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the Lord.

  • Numbers 26:62

    And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.

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Numbers 26:61 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Mas Nadab y Abiú murieron, cuando ofrecieron fuego extraño delante de Jehová.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et Nadab et Abihu moururent comme ils présentaient du feu étranger devant l’ Éternel.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und Nadab und Abihu starben, als sie fremdes Feuer vor Jehova darbrachten.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		quorum Nadab et Abiu mortui sunt, cum obtulissent ignem alienum coram Domino.