Rung 1 of 8
The story
What happens, plainly.
On the eighth day, after the seven days of waiting, Aharon brings his first offerings and blesses the people, and fire comes out from before Hashem and consumes the offering on the altar; the people shout and fall on their faces. That same day his sons Nadav and Avihu bring a strange fire that Hashem had not commanded, and fire comes out and consumes them. Moshe says, "Through those near to Me I will be made holy," and Aharon is silent. The kohanim are told not to drink wine before entering the Tent, so that they can tell holy from ordinary and impure from pure, and teach it. Then come the signs of the animals that may be eaten: beasts that chew the cud and have split hooves, water creatures with fins and scales, and lists of birds and swarming things that may not be eaten. Near the end Hashem says: be holy, for I am holy.