Numbers 26:61
What does Numbers 26:61 mean?
A plain-English look at Numbers 26:61 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before Jehovah.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the Lord.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before Jehovah.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Death overtook Nadab and Abihu when they made an offering of strange fire before the Lord.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862and Nadab dieth--Abihu also--in their bringing near strange fire before Jehovah.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Of whom Nadab and Abiu died, when they had offered the strange fire before the Lord.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And Nadab and Abihu died, when they presented strange fire before Jehovah.
Context
v.60And unto Aaron were born Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
v.61This passage
v.62And they that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, every male 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.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 10:1
And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took each of them his censer, and put fire therein, and laid incense thereon, and offered strange fire before Jehovah, which he had not commanded them.
- 1 Chronicles 24:1
And the courses of the sons of Aaron were these. The sons of Aaron: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
- Numbers 3:4
And Nadab and Abihu died before Jehovah, when they offered strange fire before Jehovah, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children; and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest’s office in the presence of Aaron their father.
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