Numbers 3:1-4

Numbers 3:1-4

a. Studying these verses has given me much understanding and insight on the differences of responsibilities of the priests, the sons of Aaron and the Levites in the work of the tabernacle. Praise God!

These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the LORD spake with Moses in mount Sinai.

And these are the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests which were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office.

And Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the sight of Aaron their father.

a. Aaron had four sons and all four were anointed to minister in the priest office. Nadab and Abihu died died and that left Eleazar and Ithamar who continued to minister in the priest office. Only the sons of Aaron were anointed to minister in the priest office.

b. The deaths of Nadab and Abihu are studied in Leviticus 10.