Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Death overtook Nadab and Abihu when they made an offering of strange fire before the Lord.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD.
Holman Bible
but Nadab and Abihu died when they presented unauthorized fire before the Lord.
International Standard Version
But Nadab and Abihu died when they offered unauthorized fire in the LORD's presence.
A Conservative Version
And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before LORD.
American Standard Version
And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before Jehovah.
Amplified
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.
Darby Translation
And Nadab and Abihu died, when they presented strange fire before Jehovah.
Julia Smith Translation
And Nadab will die, and Abihu, in their bringing near strange fire before Jehovah.
King James 2000
And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered unholy fire before the LORD.
Lexham Expanded Bible
But Nadab and Abihu died when they presented strange fire {before} Yahweh.
Modern King James verseion
And Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire before Jehovah.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But Nadab and Abihu died, as they offered strange fire before the LORD.
NET Bible
But Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire before the Lord.
New Heart English Bible
Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD.
The Emphasized Bible
But Nadab and Abihu died, - when they brought near strange fire before Yahweh:
Webster
And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the LORD.
World English Bible
Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before Yahweh.
Youngs Literal Translation
and Nadab dieth -- Abihu also -- in their bringing near strange fire before Jehovah.
Themes
journey of israel through the Desert » Return to the plains of moab » Third numbering
Levites » Enrollment of, at mount sinai
Levites » Set apart as ministers of religion
Nadab » Son of aaron » Offers "strange" (unauthorized) fire to God, and is destroyed
Interlinear
Muwth
Qarab
Zuwr
Word Count of 20 Translations in Numbers 26:61
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Second Census
60 Aaron's sons were Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 61 Death overtook Nadab and Abihu when they made an offering of strange fire before the Lord. 62 Of these, twenty-three thousand males, from one month old and over, were numbered: they were not numbered with the rest of the children of Israel, for they had no heritage among the children of Israel.
Cross References
Leviticus 10:1-2
And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took their vessels and put fire in them and perfume, burning strange fire before the Lord, which he had not given them orders to do.
Numbers 3:4
And Nadab and Abihu were put to death before the Lord when they made an offering of strange fire before the Lord, in the waste land of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar did the work of priests before Aaron their father.
1 Chronicles 24:1-2
Now the divisions into which the sons of Aaron were grouped were these: the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.