Parallel Verses

Amplified

But Nadab and Abihu died before their father and had no sons; therefore Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests.

New American Standard Bible

But Nadab and Abihu died before their father and had no sons. So Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests.

King James Version

But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office.

Holman Bible

But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and they had no sons, so Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests.

International Standard Version

But Nadab and Abihu died before their father did, leaving no sons, so Eleazar and Ithamar became priests.

A Conservative Version

But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no sons. Therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office.

American Standard Version

But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office.

Bible in Basic English

But Nadab and Abihu came to their end before their father, and had no children; so Eleazar and Ithamar did the work of priests.

Darby Translation

And Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children; and Eleazar and Ithamar exercised the priesthood.

Julia Smith Translation

And Nadab will die, and Abihu, before their father; and sons were not to them: and Eleazar and Ithamar will be priests.

King James 2000

But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and {they had no sons}, so Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests.

Modern King James verseion

But Nadab and Abihu died before their father and had no sons. And Eleazar and Ithamar were priests.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

But Nadab and Abihu died before their father and had no children. And Eleazar and Ithamar were the Priests.

NET Bible

Nadab and Abihu died before their father did; they had no sons. Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests.

New Heart English Bible

But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office.

The Emphasized Bible

but Nadab and Abihu, died, before their father, and sons, had they none, - but Eleazar and Ithamar became priests;

Webster

But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priests' office.

World English Bible

But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office.

Youngs Literal Translation

and Nadab dieth, and Abihu, in the presence of their father, and they had no sons, and Eleazar and Ithamar act as priests.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
But Nadab
נדב 
Nadab 
Usage: 20

and Abihu
H30
אביהוּא 
'Abiyhuw' 
Usage: 12

מוּת 
Muwth 
Usage: 839

פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119

אלעזר 
'El`azar 
Usage: 72

and Ithamar
איתמר 
'Iythamar 
Usage: 21

References

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Context Readings

David Organizes The Priests

1 The divisions of the descendants of Aaron were these: the sons of Aaron were Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 2 But Nadab and Abihu died before their father and had no sons; therefore Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests. 3 David, with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, divided them according to their offices for their assigned duties.


Cross References

Leviticus 10:2

And fire came out from the presence of the Lord and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.

Numbers 3:4

But Nadab and Abihu died in the presence of the Lord when they offered strange (unholy, unacceptable, inappropriate) fire before the Lord in the Wilderness of Sinai; and they had no sons. So Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests in the presence and under the supervision of Aaron their father.

Numbers 26:61

But Nadab and Abihu died [in the presence of God] when they offered [in their ceremonial censers] strange [unholy, unacceptable, unauthorized] fire before the Lord.

Exodus 24:1

Then God said to Moses, “Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu (Aaron’s older sons), and seventy of Israel’s elders, and you shall worship at a [safe] distance.

Exodus 24:9

Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up [the mountainside],

Exodus 29:9

And you shall wrap them with sashes, Aaron and his sons, and put the [ornamental] caps on them; and the priest’s office shall be theirs by a perpetual statute. So you shall ordain Aaron and his sons.

Leviticus 10:12

Then Moses said to Aaron, and to his surviving sons, Eleazar and Ithamar, “Take the grain offering that is left over from the offerings by fire to the Lord, and eat it unleavened beside the altar, for it is most holy.

Numbers 16:39-40

So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers which the Levites who were burned had offered, and they were hammered out [into broad sheets] as a plating for the [bronze] altar [of burnt offering],

Numbers 18:7

Therefore you and your sons with you shall attend to your priesthood for everything concerning the altar [of burnt offering and the altar of incense] and [of the Holy of Holies] within the veil, and you are to serve. I am giving you the priesthood as a bestowed service, but the stranger (outsider, layman) who approaches shall be put to death.”

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