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Rashi: 'The nations of the world', he told them, 'have many religions and many priests, who all ¹ gather in one house. We have only one G-d, one Aron, one Torah one Mizbe'ach and one Kohen Gadol - and you, 250 men all want the Kehunah Gedolah! I want it too! So here's the most precious service of all - the Ketores ² , which is more treasured than all the Korbanos, and which contains poison, ³ the poison that killed Nadav and Avihu. This was Moshe's warning to desist from going ahead with the test. He hoped that that they would do Teshuvah and relent. ⁴

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Ramban #1 (on Pasuk 5): It was his own idea.

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Ramban #2 (Ibid.), citing the Ibn Ezra): Refer to 16:4:1:2.

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Ramban #3 (Ibid.) : It came through Ru'ach ha'Kodesh) ⁵ .

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Moshav Zekenim (7) #1: It was an excuse to delay until tomorrow (refer to 16:5:2:1), for it is offered only [half] in the morning and [half in the] afternoon, and presumably, one may begin only in the morning.

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Moshav Zekenim (7) #2: Primarily, the Kohen Gadol offers it, even though a Drashah is Machshir even a Kohen Hedyot. ⁶

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Rashi: He was warning them that the chosen person was already Kadosh, that he was the one who would come out alive and all the others would die!