So they went near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp; as Moses had said.
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Gill's Exposition
So they went near,.... To the place where the bodies lay, having an order from Moses so to do, let them have been where they will:
and carried them in their coats out of the camp, as Moses had said;…
Barnes' Notes
Coats - See Exo 28:39. Life had been extinguished as if by a flash of lightning, but neither the bodies nor the dresses were destroyed.
Adam Clarke
Carried them in their coats out of the camp - The modern impropriety of burying the dead within towns, cities, or places inhabited, had not yet been introduced; much less that abomination, at which…
We may well think that when Nadab and Abihu were struck with death all about them were struck with horror, and every face, as well as theirs, gathered blackness. Great consternation, no doubt, seized…
Cambridge Bible
their coats their priestly garments. See on Lev 8:13.