Then Micaiah said, ‘Therefore, hear the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and the whole heavenly army was standing by him at his right hand and at his left hand.
Exodus 24:9 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Then Moses went up with Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up [the mountainside]. American Standard Version (1901) Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel: Common English Bible Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy elders of Israel went up, Catholic Public Domain Version And Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel ascended. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abiu, and seventy of the ancients of Israel went up. |
Then Micaiah said, ‘Therefore, hear the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and the whole heavenly army was standing by him at his right hand and at his left hand.
And the Lord replied to him, ‘Go down and come back with Aaron. But the priests and the people must not break through to come up to the Lord, or he will break out in anger against them.’
Then he said to Moses, ‘Go up to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders, and bow in worship at a distance.
‘Let your brother Aaron, with his sons, come to you from the Israelites to serve me as priest #– #Aaron, his sons Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
But he added, ‘You cannot see my face, for humans cannot see me and live.’
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne, and the hem of his robe filled the temple.
The prince himself will sit in the gate to eat a meal before the Lord. He is to enter by way of the portico of the gate and go out the same way.’
Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu each took his own firepan, put fire in it, placed incense on it, and presented unauthorised fire before the Lord, which he had not commanded them to do.
The Lord answered Moses, ‘Bring me seventy men from Israel known to you as elders and officers of the people. Take them to the tent of meeting and make them stand there with you.
‘We’re certainly going to die,’ he said to his wife, ‘because we have seen God! ’