Nadab (son of Aaron)

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The eldest of Aaron's four sons (Ex 6:23; Num 3:2). He with his brothers and their father were consecrated as priests of YHWH (Ex 28:1). He afterwards perished with Abihu for the sin of offering strange fire on the altar of burnt-offering (Lev 10:1f; Num 3:4; Num 26:60).

This entry includes text from Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897.

Eldest son of Aaron and Elisheba; one of the leaders of the children of Israel who went with Moses to Sinai and "saw the God of Israel" (Ex 6:23; xxiv. 1, 9 et seq.; Num 3:2, xxvi. 60; 1Chr 5:29 [A. V. vi. 3], xxiv. 1). Nadab was consecrated to the priesthood with his three younger brothers, but on the very day of his consecration he and his brother Abihu perished for having offered "strange fire" (Ex 28:1; Lev 10:12 et seq.; Num 3:4, xxvi. 61; 1Chr 24:2). See Abihu in Rabbinical Literature.