Passage Research
Leviticus 10 — Sermon Preparation
Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu offer unauthorized fire and are consumed; priests are forbidden to drink wine on duty, and their portions of the offerings are clarified. Below is a research summary for Leviticus 10, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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- verses
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- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 8
- classic sermon excerpts
- 4
- preachers & commentators
Leviticus 10 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אַהֲרוֹן | ʼAhărôwn | H175 | 9 | Aharon |
| מֹשֶׁה | Môsheh | H4872 | 10 | Mosheh |
| קֹדֶשׁ | qôdesh | H6944 | 9 | sacred, sanctity |
| אָכַל | ʼâkal | H398 | 8 | eat |
| חֹק | chôq | H2706 | 6 | enactment, appointment |
| דָבַר | dâbar | H1696 | 6 | arrange, speak |
| אִיתָמָר | ʼÎythâmâr | H385 | 3 | Ithamar |
How preachers through history handled this text
8 public-domain excerpts on Leviticus 10, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“Afflictions should rather quicken us to our duty, than take us from it. But our unfitness for duty, when it is natural and not sinful, will have great allowances made for it; God will have mercy, and not sacrifice. Let us profit by the solemn warning this history conveys. When professing worshippers come with zeal without knowledge, carnal affections, earthly, light, vain, trifling thoughts, the devices of will-worship, instead of the offering of soul and spirit; …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Leviticus 10:12–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Holy Place 1— Lev 10:18
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