61 But Nadab and Abihu died when they made an offering before the Lord with unauthorized fire.)
61 And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the Lord.
61 But Nadab and Abihu died when they offered unauthorized fire before the Lord.
61 however, Nadab and Abihu died when they offered unauthorized sacrifice in the presence of God.
61 And Nadab and Abihu died when they offered profane fire before the Lord.
61 But Nadab and Abihu died when they burned before the Lord the wrong kind of fire, different than he had commanded.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Numbers 26:61
Commentary on Numbers 26:57-62
(Read Numbers 26:57-62)
Levi was God's tribe; therefore it was not numbered with the rest, but alone. It came not under the sentence, that none of them should enter Canaan excepting Caleb and Joshua.