Numbers 4 (JND) - Bible Truth Library

the office.Eleazar himself, perhaps with the other priests, was required to carry the oil for the light, the incense, and the flour for the daily meat offering, and the holy ointment; besides superintending the Levites.

It may be supposed, that he himself carried no more of the oil than for present use. (see ver. 9.)

Num. 3:32• ³²And the prince of princes of the Levites was Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest: he had the oversight of them that kept the charge of the sanctuary. (Num. 3:32)

the oil.

Ex. 25:6• ⁶oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil, and for the incense of fragrant drugs; (Ex. 25:6)

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Ex. 27:20‑21• ²⁰And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee olive oil, pure, beaten, for the light, to light the lamp continually.
²¹In the tent of meeting outside the veil, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall dress them from evening to morning before Jehovah: it is an everlasting statute, for their generations, on the part of the children of Israel. (Ex. 27:20‑21)

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Lev. 24:2• ²Command the children of Israel that they bring unto thee pure beaten olive oil for the light, to light the lamp continually. (Lev. 24:2)

the sweet.

Ex. 30:34‑38• ³⁴And Jehovah said to Moses, Take fragrant drugs--stacte, and onycha, and galbanum--fragrant drugs and pure frankincense; in like proportions shall it be.
³⁵And thou shalt make it into incense, a perfume, after the work of the perfumer, salted, pure, holy.
³⁶And thou shalt beat some of it to powder, and put some of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with thee: it shall be unto you most holy.
³⁷And the incense that thou shalt make, ye shall not make for yourselves according to the proportions of it; it shall be unto thee holy to Jehovah.
³⁸Whoever maketh like unto it, to smell it, shall be cut off from his peoples. (Ex. 30:34‑38)

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Ex. 37:29• ²⁹And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of fragrant drugs, according to the work of the perfumer. (Ex. 37:29)

the daily.

Ex. 29:39‑41• ³⁹The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer between the two evenings.
⁴⁰And with the one lamb a tenth part of wheaten flour mingled with beaten oil, a fourth part of a hin; and a drink-offering, a fourth part of a hin of wine.
⁴¹And the second lamb shalt thou offer between the two evenings; as the oblation in the morning, and as its drink-offering shalt thou offer with this, for a sweet odour, an offering by fire to Jehovah. (Ex. 29:39‑41)

the anointing.

Ex. 30:23‑33• ²³And thou, take best spices--of liquid myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon the half--two hundred and fifty, and of sweet myrtle two hundred and fifty,
²⁴and of cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of olive oil a hin;
²⁵and make of it an oil of holy ointment, a perfume of perfumery after the work of the perfumer: it shall be the holy anointing oil.
²⁶And thou shalt anoint the tent of meeting with it, and the ark of the testimony,
²⁷and the table and all its utensils, and the lamp-stand and its utensils, and the altar of incense,
²⁸and the altar of burnt-offering and all its utensils, and the laver and its stand.
²⁹And thou shalt hallow them, that they may be most holy: whatever toucheth them shall be holy.
³⁰And Aaron and his sons thou shalt anoint, and shalt hallow them, that they may serve me as priests.
³¹And thou shalt speak to the children of Israel, saying, A holy anointing oil shall this be unto me throughout your generations.
³²Upon man's flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make any like it, after the preparation of it: it is holy--holy shall it be unto you.
³³Whoever compoundeth any like it, or whoever putteth any of it upon any strange thing, shall be cut off from his peoples. (Ex. 30:23‑33)

the oversight.

Luke 4:18• ¹⁸The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach glad tidings to the poor; he has sent me to preach to captives deliverance, and to the blind sight, to send forth the crushed delivered, (Luke 4:18)

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Acts 20:28• ²⁸Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, wherein the Holy Spirit has set you as overseers, to shepherd the assembly of God, which he has purchased with the blood of his own. (Acts 20:28)

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1 Cor. 4:1• ¹Let a man so account of us as servants of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. (1 Cor. 4:1)

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1 Tim. 2:5• ⁵For God is one, and the mediator of God and men one, the man Christ Jesus, (1 Tim. 2:5)

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Heb. 3:1,6• ¹Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus,
⁶but Christ, as Son over his house, whose house are *we*, if indeed we hold fast the boldness and the boast of hope firm to the end. (Heb. 3:1,6)

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1 Peter 2:25• ²⁵For ye were going astray as sheep, but have now returned to the shepherd and overseer of your souls. (1 Peter 2:25)

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1 Peter 5:2• ²shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising oversight, not by necessity, but willingly; not for base gain, but readily; (1 Peter 5:2)

J. N. Darby Translation

And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall have the oversight of the oil for the light, and the fragrant incensee, and the continual oblation, and the anointing oil,—the oversight of the whole tabernacle, and of all that is therein, over the sanctuary, and over its furniture.

JND Translation Notes

See Ex. 30.7.