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Numbers 4:16

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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 note on Numbers 4:9). Numbers 3:32

the oil: Exodus 25:6, Exodus 27:20-21; Leviticus 24:2

the sweet: Exodus 30:34-38, Exodus 37:29

the daily: Exodus 29:39-41

the anointing: Exodus 30:23-33

the oversight: Luke 4:18; Acts 20:28; 1 Corinthians 4:1; 1 Timothy 2:5; Hebrews 3:1, Hebrews 3:6; 1 Peter 2:25, 1 Peter 5:2

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