Discovery BoxLeviticus 8:16 
Context8:16 Then he 1 took all the fat on the entrails, the protruding lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and their fat, 2 and Moses offered it all up in smoke on the altar, 3
Leviticus 8:23
Context8:23 and he slaughtered it. 4 Moses then took some of its blood and put it on Aaron’s right earlobe, 5 on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe 6 of his right foot.
Leviticus 8:25-26
Context8:25 Then he took the fat (the fatty tail, 7 all the fat on the entrails, the protruding lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and their fat 8 ) and the right thigh, 9 8:26 and from the basket of unleavened bread that was before the Lord he took one unleavened loaf, one loaf of bread mixed with olive oil, and one wafer, 10 and placed them on the fat parts and on the right thigh.
Leviticus 8:28-29
Context8:28 Moses then took them from their palms and offered them up in smoke on the altar 11 on top of the burnt offering – they were an ordination offering for a soothing aroma; it was a gift to the Lord. 8:29 Finally, Moses took the breast and waved it as a wave offering before the Lord from the ram of ordination. It was Moses’ share just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
Leviticus 9:15
Context9:15 Then he presented the people’s offering. He took the sin offering male goat which was for the people, slaughtered it, and performed a decontamination rite with it 12 like the first one. 13
Leviticus 10:1
Context10:1 Then 14 Aaron’s sons, Nadab and Abihu, each took his fire pan and put fire in it, set incense on it, and presented strange fire 15 before the Lord, which he had not commanded them to do.
1 tn Again, Aaron probably performed the slaughter and collected the fat parts (v. 16a), but Moses presented it all on the altar (v. 16b; cf. the note on v. 15 above).
2 sn See Lev 3:3-4 for the terminology of fat and kidneys here.
3 tn Heb “toward the altar” (see the note on Lev 1:9).
4 tn Again, Aaron probably did the slaughtering (cf. the notes on Lev 8:15-16 above).
5 tn Heb “on the lobe of the ear of Aaron, the right one.”
6 tn The term for “big toe” (בֹּהֶן, bohen) is the same as that for “thumb.” It refers to the larger appendage on either the hand or the foot.
9 tn See Lev 7:32-34.
11 tn Heb “toward the altar” (see the note on Lev 1:9).
12 tn The expression “and performed a decontamination rite [with] it” reads literally in the MT, “and decontaminated [with] it.” The verb is the Piel of חטא (kht’, Qal = “to sin”), which means “to decontaminate, purify” (i.e., “to de-sin”; see the note on Lev 8:15).
13 sn The phrase “like the first one” at the end of the verse refers back to the sin offering for the priests described in vv. 8-11 above. The blood of the sin offering of the common people was applied to the burnt offering altar just like that of the priests.
14 tn Although it has been used elsewhere in this translation as an English variation from the ubiquitous use of vav in Hebrew, in this instance “then” as a rendering for vav is intended to show that the Nadab and Abihu catastrophe took place on the inauguration day described in Lev 9. The tragic incident in Lev 10 happened in close temporal connection to the
15 tn The expression “strange fire” (אֵשׁ זָרָה, ’esh zarah) seems imprecise (cf. NAB “profane fire”; NIV “unauthorized fire”; NRSV “unholy fire”; NLT “a different kind of fire”) and has been interpreted numerous ways (see the helpful summary in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 132-33). The infraction may have involved any of the following or a combination thereof: (1) using coals from someplace other than the burnt offering altar (i.e., “unauthorized coals” according to J. Milgrom, Leviticus [AB], 1:598; cf. Lev 16:12 and cf. “unauthorized person” אִישׁ זָר (’ish zar) in Num 16:40 [17:5 HT], NASB “layman”), (2) using the wrong kind of incense (cf. the Exod 30:9 regulation against “strange incense” קְטֹרֶת זָרָה (qÿtoreh zarah) on the incense altar and the possible connection to Exod 30:34-38), (3) performing an incense offering at an unprescribed time (B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 59), or (4) entering the Holy of Holies at an inappropriate time (Lev 16:1-2).
