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Moses sent for Mishael and Elzaphan, the two sons of Aaron's uncle Uzziel. Then he told them, “Take these two dead relatives of yours outside the camp far from the entrance to the sacred tent.” So they dragged the dead men away by their clothes.

Then Moses told Aaron and his other two sons, Eleazar and Ithamar:

Don't show your sorrow by messing up your hair and tearing your priestly clothes, or the Lord will get angry. He will kill the three of you and punish everyone else. It's all right for your relatives, the people of Israel, to mourn for those he destroyed by fire.

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Moses summoned Mishael and Elzaphan,(A) sons of Aaron’s uncle Uzziel,(B) and said to them, “Come here; carry your cousins outside the camp,(C) away from the front of the sanctuary.(D) So they came and carried them, still in their tunics,(E) outside the camp, as Moses ordered.

Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar,(F) “Do not let your hair become unkempt[a](G) and do not tear your clothes,(H) or you will die and the Lord will be angry with the whole community.(I) But your relatives, all the Israelites, may mourn(J) for those the Lord has destroyed by fire.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 10:6 Or Do not uncover your heads