So they came and carried them, still in their tunics, outside the camp, as Moses ordered. The bodies of Nadab and Abihu are carried outside the camp still in their priestly tunics — the garments they wore when they made their unauthorized offering. The priestly vestments that the ordination ceremony placed on them with such care are now the garments in which they are removed from the sanctuary. The tunics that gave them dignity and honor in life carry them out in death. The ordinances that prescribed how the priestly garments were to be put on did not prescribe how they were to come off — Leviticus 10:5 provides the only example in the Torah of priestly garments removed in death.

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