The Covenant Confirmed

24 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron,^(A) Nadab and Abihu,^(B) and seventy of the elders^(C) of Israel. You are to worship at a distance,

⁹ Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy elders^(A) of Israel went up

² The names of the sons of Aaron were Nadab the firstborn^(A) and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.^{(B) 3} Those were the names of Aaron’s sons, the anointed priests,^(C) who were ordained to serve as priests. ⁴ Nadab and Abihu, however, died before the Lord^(D) when they made an offering with unauthorized fire before him in the Desert of Sinai.^(E) They had no sons, so Eleazar and Ithamar^(F) served as priests during the lifetime of their father Aaron.^(G)

² But Nadab and Abihu died before their father did,^(A) and they had no sons; so Eleazar and Ithamar served as the priests.