King James Version
Numbers 26:61 in the King James Version says “And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD.” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 26 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD.”
Numbers 26:61 · KJV
And the name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
And unto Aaron was born Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD.
And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, all males 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.
These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“when they offered”
H7126to approach (causatively, bring near) for whatever purpose
“strange”
H2114to turn aside (especially for lodging); hence to be a foreigner, strange, profane; specifically (active participle) to commit adultery
“before”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
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