Vayikra (Leviticus) - Chapter 10

10:1 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 Mar-Yah, which he had not commanded them. 10:2 And fire came forth from before Mar-Yah, and devoured them, and they died before Mar-Yah.

10:3 Then Mosha said to Aaron, "This is what Mar-Yah 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. 10:4 Mosha 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." 10:5 So they drew near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp, as Mosha had said.

10:6 Mosha said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, "Do not let the hair of your heads go loose, neither tear your clothes; that you do not die, and that he not be angry with all the congregation: but let your brothers, the whole house of Yisrael, bewail the burning which Mar-Yah has kindled. 10:7 You shall not go out from the door of the Tabernacle, lest you die; for the anointing oil of Mar-Yah is on you." They did according to the word of Mosha.

10:8 Mar-Yah spoke to Aaron, saying, 10:9 "Drink no wine nor strong drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the Tabernacle, that you do not die: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations: 10:10 and that you are to make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean; 10:11 and that you are to teach the B'nai Yisrael all the statutes which Mar-Yah has spoken to them by Mosha."

10:12 Mosha spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons who were left, "Take the meal offering that remains of the offerings of Mar-Yah made by fire, and eat it without yeast beside the altar; for it is most holy; 10:13 and you shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your portion, and your sons' portion, of the offerings of Mar-Yah made by fire: for so I am commanded. 10:14 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 B'nai Yisrael. 10:15 The heaved thigh and the waved breast they shall bring with the offerings made by fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before Mar-Yah: and it shall be yours, and your sons' with you, as a portion forever; as Mar-Yah has commanded."

10:16 Mosha diligently inquired about the goat of the sin offering, and, behold, it was burned: and he was angry with Eleazar and with Ithamar, the sons of Aaron who were left, saying, 10:17 "Why have you not eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, seeing it is most holy, and he has given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before Mar-Yah? 10:18 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."

10:19 Aaron spoke to Mosha, "Behold, this day they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before Mar-Yah; and such things as these have happened to me: and if I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been pleasing in the sight of Mar-Yah?"

10:20 When Mosha heard that, it was pleasing in his sight.