Numbers 3:4 - Easy To Read Version

⁴ But Nadab and Abihu died {because they sinned} while serving the Lord. They used fire that the Lord did not allow when they made an offering to the Lord. So Nadab and Abihu died there, in the Sinai desert. They had no sons, so Eleazar and Ithamar took their place and served the Lord as priests. This happened while their father Aaron was still alive.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ But 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. So Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the presence and under the supervision of Aaron their father. [Lev. 10:1-4.]

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

⁴ Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD when they made an unauthorized offering to the LORD in the Sinai desert. They didn’t have any sons. Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests during the lifetime of their father Aaron.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ For Nadab and Abihu died without children, when they offered, in the sight of the Lord, a strange fire, in the desert of Sinai. And so, Eleazar and Ithamar exercised the priesthood in the sight of Aaron, their father.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ Now Nadab and Abiu died, without children, when they offered strange fire before the Lord, in the desert of Sinai: and Eleazar and Ithamar performed the priestly office in the presence of Aaron their father.

Numbers 3:4 Cross References

1 Chronicles 24:1

These were the groups of Aaron’s sons: Aaron’s sons were Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

Numbers 16:35

Then a fire came from the Lord and destroyed the 250 men who were offering the incense. [209]

Numbers 19:3

Give that cow to Eleazar the priest. Eleazar will take the cow outside the camp and kill it there.

Numbers 20:25

“Now, bring Aaron and his son Eleazar up to Mount Hor.

Numbers 26:61

But Nadab and Abihu died. They died because they made an offering to the Lord with fire that was not allowed.

Numbers 3:5

The Lord said to Moses,