0 Why did God kill Aaron's sons, Nadab and Abihu?

Neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother. Jeremiah 16:7

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Why did God kill Aaron's sons, Nadab and Abihu?


For offering "strange fire before the Lord."

And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD. Leviticus 10:1
And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not. And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD. Leviticus 10:1

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