Leviticus
Chapter 10
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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
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1The sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, each took his fire-pan, put fire in them, set incense on it, and brought outside fire before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., which he had not commanded them.
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Esh zarah is outside fire, fire that does not belong. Zar is the same word as the outsider who is not a priest. Machtah is a fire-pan.
2Fire came out from before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. and consumed them, and they died before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
3Moses said to Aaron, This is what God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke: Among those who come near me I will be treated as holy, and before all the people I will be honored. And Aaron was silent.
4Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel, Aaron’s uncle, and said to them, Come near. Carry your brothers from in front of the holy place, to outside the camp.
5They came near and carried them in their tunics to outside the camp, as Moses had spoken.
6Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, Do not let your heads go loose, and do not tear your clothes, or you will die, and he will be angry with the whole congregation. Your brothers, the whole house of Israel, shall weep for the burning that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. has burned.
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Tifra’u is to let the hair go loose. Tifromu is to tear the clothes. The burning, serefah, is what the fire did to Nadab and Abihu.
7You shall not go out from the entrance of the tent of meeting, or you will die, because the Pouring oil to set someone apart for God. oil of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. is on you. They did according to the word of Moses.
8God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to Aaron:
9Wine and intoxicating drink you shall not drink, you and your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, and you shall not die. It is a lasting A rule that is meant to last. through your generations,
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Shekhar is an intoxicating drink. It is not given a second name such as beer.
10and to make a separation between the holy and the ordinary, and between the unclean and the clean,
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Chol is ordinary, what is not set apart. It is not “profane” as an insult.
11and to teach the sons of Israel all the Rules that are meant to last. that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. has spoken to them by the hand of Moses.
12Moses spoke to Aaron and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons who were left: Take the grain gift that is left from the food gifts of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. and eat it Made without yeast, so the bread stays flat. beside the altar, because it is a most holy thing.
13You shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your due and your sons’ due from the food gifts of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., for so I was commanded.
14The breast of the raised offering and the thigh of the contribution you shall eat in a clean place, you and your sons and your daughters with you, because they have been given as your due and your sons’ due from the sacrifices of well-being of the sons of Israel.
15The thigh of the contribution and the breast of the raised offering they shall bring, along with the food gifts of the fats, to raise as a raised offering before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.. It shall be yours and your sons’ with you as a lasting due, as God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. has commanded.
16The goat of the offense offering Moses searched and searched, and look, it had been burned. He was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron who were left, saying,
17Why did you not eat the offense offering in the holy place? It is a most holy thing, and he gave it to you to carry the guilt of the congregation, to make Making someone right with God after a wrong. for them before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
18Look, its blood was not brought into the holy place, inside. You should have eaten it, eaten it, in the holy place, as I commanded.
19Aaron spoke to Moses, Look, today they brought their offense offering and their whole offering before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., and things like these have met me. If I had eaten an offense offering today, would it have been good in God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.’s eyes?
20Moses heard, and it was good in his eyes.