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61 Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire to the Lord.[a]

62 There were 23,000 male Levites who were more than one month old. Moses did not include them on the list of the other Israelite tribes. They did not receive any land as the other tribes did.

63 Those are the men that Moses and Eleazar the priest counted. They counted them on the flat ground in Moab beside the Jordan River. Jericho was on the other side of the river.

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Footnotes

  1. 26:61 We are not sure what ‘strange fire’ was. But we know that it was something that did not please God. See Numbers 3:4.