“Aharon answered Moshe, ‘Even though they offered their sin offering and burnt offering today, things like these have happened to me! If I had eaten the purification offering today, would it have pleased Adonai?‘ On hearing this reply, Moshe was satisfied.”-Leviticus 10:19-20 In verses 18-20, we encounter a somewhat difficult to understand exchange between Moses and Aaron. […]

“Then Moshe carefully investigated what had happened to the goat of the sin offering and discovered that it had been burned up. He became angry with El‘azar and Itamar, the remaining sons of Aharon, and asked, ‘Why didn’t you eat the sin offering in the area of the sanctuary, since it is especially holy? He gave […]

“Adonai said to Aharon, ‘Don’t drink any wine or other intoxicating liquor, neither you nor your sons with you, when you enter the tent of meeting, so that you will not die. This is to be a permanent regulation through all your generations, so that you will distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean […]

“Moses summoned Mishael and Elzaphan, sons of Aaron’s uncle Uzziel, and said to them, “Come here; carry your cousins outside the camp, away from the front of the sanctuary.” So they came and carried them, still in their tunics, outside the camp, as Moses ordered.”-Leviticus 10:4 Following the death of Nadav and Avihu, we’re told that Moses summoned their cousins […]

For those who hold to a warped theology that says God was only a God of judgment and wrath in the Old Testament but changed in the New Testament, I think the account of the death of Ananias and Sapphira as told in the Book of Acts is a sobering story to take a good […]