Numbers 4:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

The oil for the light. — Or, for the candlestick (Exodus 25:6).

The sweet incense. — Or, the incense of spices (Exodus 25:6).

The daily meat offering. — Better, the continual meat offeringi.e., the morning and evening minchah (Exodus 29:38-42).

The anointing oil. — i.e., “the oil of holy ointment” with which the tent of meeting, the vessels of the Sanctuary, and the priests were to be anointed (Exodus 30:23-31).

Numbers 4:16

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.