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You may therefore have to explain that the effect of the irritation will be that you will do something unpleasant if the noise continues. Also, perhaps, that Mamma, who made the child learn the Sermon on the Mount, is not really a Christian. The Sin of Nadab and Abihu But there is another sort of answer in wide use which is neither straightforward, instructive, nor harmless.

The Hebrews were pleased with what was said, and they gave their approbation to him whom God had ordained; for Aaron was of them all the most deserving of this honor, on account of his own stock and gift of prophecy, and his brother's virtue. He had at that time four sons, Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

The names of those chosen were: from the tribe of Reuben, Hanoch, Carmi, Pallu, Zaccur, Eliab, Nemuel; from the tribe of Simeon, Jamin, Jachin, Zohar, Ohad, Shaul, Zimri; from the tribe of Levi, Amram, Hananiah, Nethanel, Sithri; from the tribe of Judah, Zerah, Dan, Jonadab, Bezalel, Shephatiah, Nahshon; from the tribe of Issachar, Zuar, Uzza, Igal, Palti, Othniel, Haggi; from the tribe of Zebulun, Sered, Elon, Sodi, Oholiab, Elijah, Nimshi; from the tribe of Benjamin, Senaah, Kislon, Elidad, Ahitub, Jediael, Mattaniah; from the tribe of Joseph, Jair, Joezer, Malchiel, Adoniram, Abiram, Sethur; from the tribe of Dan, Gedaliah, Jogli, Ahinoam, Ahiezer, Daniel, Seraiah; from the tribe of Naphtali, Elhanan, Eliakim, Elishama, Semachiah, Zabdi, Johanan; from the tribe of Gad, Haggai, Zarhi, Keni, Mattathiah, Zechariah, Shuni; from the tribe of Asher, Pashhur, Shelomi, Samuel, Shalom, Shecaniah, Abihu.

And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the Lord hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses. LEV. x. 1-11. This solemn story of sin and punishment is connected with the preceding chapter by a simple 'and. Probably, therefore, Nadab and Abihu 'offered strange fire, immediately after the fire from Jehovah had consumed the appointed sacrifice.

And the sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. And the children of Amram; Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. The sons also of Aaron; Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phinehas begat Abishua, And Abishua begat Bukki, and Bukki begat Uzzi, And Uzzi begat Zerahiah, and Zerahiah begat Meraioth, Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,

Being Levites they might not enter the place where the heavenly fire had met their cousins, hence an angel had thrust Nadab and Abihu out of the priestly room, and they did not die until they were outside it, so that Mishael and Elzaphan might approach them.

Moses' method, first seen by him in practice, struck Jethro as most absurd, and he therefore said: "The thing that thou doest is not good," through delicacy softening his real opinion, "It is bad" to "It is not good." "The people," he continued, "will surely unbraid thee and Aaron, his two sons Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy elders, if thou continuest in this fashion.

God, before bringing the flood upon the earth, observed the seven days preceding as a week of mourning, and in the same way He bade Aaron and his sons live in absolute retirement for a week, as is the duty of mourners, for a heavy loss awaited them the death of Nadab and Abihu, which took place on the joyous day of their dedication.

Mishael and Elzaphan, who had attended to the burial of Nadab and Abihu, were godly men, anxious to fulfil the commandments of God, hence they went to the house where Moses and Aaron instructed the people, and said to them: "We are defiled by the dead body of a man; wherefore are we kept back that we may not offer an offering of the Lord in His appointed season among the children of Israel?"

But how soon was her joy turned to grief! Her two sons, Nadab and Abihu, carried away by the universal rejoicing at the heavenly fire, approached the sanctuary with the censers in their hands, to increase God's love for Israel through this act of sacrifice, but paid with their lives for this offering.