Numbers 4:16

And that delivered unto Elazar bar Aharon the priest (shall be) the oil for the light, and the aromatic incense, and the continual mincha, and the anointing oil, (with) the charge of all the tabernacle, and whatever belongeth to the sanctuary and its vessels.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

15And when Aharon and his sons have completed to cover up the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary in the moving of the camp, the sons of Kehath shall go in to carry (them), but they shall not touch the holy things (themselves), lest they die; but these are the burden of the sons of Kehath in the tabernacle of ordinance.

17And the Lord spake with Mosheh and with Aharon, saying:

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Cross References

Exodus 25:6Oil for the illuminators, aromatics for the anointing oil, and aromatics for the incense;

Exodus 29:39The one lamb thou shalt perform in the morning, and the second lamb thou shalt perform between the evenings.

Exodus 30:23Take thou also to thee choice (first or principal) aromatics: pure myrrh, five hundred ( shekels’ weight); and sweet cinnamon, one half (as much), two hundred and fifty ( shekels) weight; of sweet calamus, two hundred and fifty ( shekels’) weight;

Exodus 37:29And he made the oil for holy anointment, and the pure sweet incense, the work of the perfumer.

Leviticus 24:2Instruct the sons of Israel to bring to thee oil of olives, pure (and) beaten, to give light, to make the lamps burn continually.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 4:2-21

The Office of the Levites. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 2 Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers, 3 From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation. 4 This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, about the most holy things: 5 And when the camp setteth forward,… Read the whole commentary →

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