Lexicon :: Strong's H2114 - zûr

“They must eat those things by which atonement was made at the time of their ordination[fn] and consecration. An unauthorized person must not eat them, for these things are holy.

“You must not offer unauthorized incense on it, or a burnt or grain offering; you are not to pour a drink offering on it.

“Anyone who blends something like it or puts some of it on an unauthorized person must be cut off from his people.”

Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu each took his own firepan, put fire in it, placed incense on it, and presented unauthorized fire before the LORD, which he had not commanded them to do.

“No one outside a priest’s family[fn] is to eat the holy offering. A foreigner staying with a priest or a hired worker is not to eat the holy offering.

“If the priest’s daughter is married to a man outside a priest’s family,[fn] she is not to eat from the holy contributions.[fn]

“Whenever the tabernacle is to move, the Levites are to take it down, and whenever it is to stop at a campsite, the Levites are to set it up. Any unauthorized person who comes near it is to be put to death.

But Nadab and Abihu died in the LORD’s presence when they presented unauthorized fire before the LORD in the Wilderness of Sinai, and they had no sons. So Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests under the direction of Aaron their father.

“You are to appoint Aaron and his sons to carry out their priestly responsibilities, but any unauthorized person who comes near the sanctuary is to be put to death.”

Moses, Aaron, and his sons, who performed the duties of[fn] the sanctuary as a service on behalf of the Israelites, camped in front of the tabernacle on the east, in front of the tent of meeting toward the sunrise. Any unauthorized person who came near it was to be put to death.

just as the LORD commanded him through Moses. It was to be a reminder for the Israelites that no unauthorized person outside the lineage of Aaron should approach to offer incense before the LORD and become like Korah and his followers.

“They are to join you and guard the tent of meeting, doing all the work at the tent, but no unauthorized person may come near you.

“But you and your sons will carry out your priestly responsibilities for everything concerning the altar and for what is inside the curtain, and you will do that work. I am giving you the work of the priesthood as a gift,[fn] but an unauthorized person who comes near the sanctuary will be put to death.”

but Nadab and Abihu died when they presented unauthorized fire before the LORD.

“When brothers live on the same property[fn] and one of them dies without a son, the wife of the dead man may not marry a stranger outside the family. Her brother-in-law is to take her as his wife, have sexual relations with her, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law for her.

They provoked his jealousy with different gods;

they enraged him with detestable practices.

“On the third day after I gave birth, she also had a baby and we were alone. No one else[fn] was with us in the house; just the two of us were there.

“I dug wells

and drank water in foreign lands.

I dried up all the streams of Egypt

with the soles of my feet.’

to whom alone the land was given

when no foreigner passed among them.

He has removed my brothers from me;

my acquaintances have abandoned me.

My house guests[fn] and female servants regard me as a stranger;

I am a foreigner in their sight.

My breath is offensive to my wife,

and my own family[fn] finds me repulsive.

I will see him myself;

my eyes will look at him, and not as a stranger.[fn]

My heart longs[fn] within me.

If we had forgotten the name of our God

and spread out our hands to a foreign god,

For strangers rise up against me,

and violent men intend to kill me.

They do not let God guide them.[fn]Selah

The wicked go astray from the womb;

liars wander about from birth.

I have become a stranger to my brothers

and a foreigner to my mother’s sons

Before they had turned from what they craved,

while the food was still in their mouths,

“There must not be a strange god among you;

you must not bow down to a foreign god.

Let a creditor seize all he has;

let strangers plunder what he has worked for.

It will rescue you from a forbidden woman,

from a wayward woman with her flattering talk,

Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey

and her words are[fn] smoother than oil,

strangers will drain your resources,

and your hard-earned pay will end up in a foreigner’s house.

They should be for you alone

and not for you to share with strangers.

Why, my son, would you lose yourself

with a forbidden woman

or embrace a wayward woman?

My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor[fn]

or entered into an agreement with[fn] a stranger,

She will keep you from a forbidden woman,

a wayward woman with her flattering talk.

If someone puts up security for a stranger,

he will suffer for it,

but the one who hates such agreements is protected.

The heart knows its own bitterness,

and no outsider shares in its joy.

Take his garment,

for he has put up security for a stranger;

get collateral if it is for foreigners.

The mouth of the forbidden woman is a deep pit;

a man cursed by the LORD will fall into it.

Your eyes will see strange things,

and you will say absurd things.[fn]

Let another praise you, and not your own mouth —

a stranger, and not your own lips.

Take his garment,

for he has put up security for a stranger;

get collateral if it is for foreigners.[fn]

Oh sinful nation,

people weighed down with iniquity,

brood of evildoers,

depraved children!

They have abandoned the LORD;

they have despised the Holy One of Israel;

they have turned their backs on him.

Your land is desolate,

your cities burned down;

foreigners devour your fields

right in front of you —

a desolation, like a place demolished by foreigners.

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation,

and you have failed to remember

the rock of your strength;

therefore you will plant beautiful plants

and set out cuttings from exotic vines.

For you have turned the city into a pile of rocks,

a fortified city, into ruins;

the fortress of barbarians is no longer a city;

it will never be rebuilt.

like heat in a dry land,

you will subdue the uproar of barbarians.

As the shade of a cloud cools the heat of the day,

so he will silence the song of the violent.