Numbers 4:16
And to the office of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest pertaineth the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and the daily meat offering, and the anointing oil, and the oversight of all the tabernacle, and of all that therein is, in the sanctuary, and in the vessels thereof.
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Gill's Exposition
And the Lord spake unto Moses, and unto Aaron,.... And gave them a very solemn and awful charge about this affair of the Kohathites, it being a very hazardous one they were employed in:
saying; as…
We have here a second muster of the tribe of Levi. As that tribe was taken out of all Israel to be God's peculiar, so the middle-aged men of that tribe were taken from among the rest to be actually…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
Eleazar superintends the Kohathites, and has personal charge of the oil for the light (Exo 27:20), the -incense of sweet spices" (Exo 25:6; Exo 30:34-38), the -continual meal-offering," and the…
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