Numbers 3:32
Context3:32 Now the head of all the Levitical leaders 1 was Eleazar son of Aaron the priest. He was appointed over those who were responsible 2 for the sanctuary.
Numbers 4:16
Context4:16 “The appointed responsibility of Eleazar son of Aaron the priest is for the oil for the light, and the spiced incense, and the daily grain offering, and the anointing oil; he also has 3 the appointed responsibility over all the tabernacle with 4 all that is in it, over the sanctuary and over all its furnishings.” 5
Numbers 3:36
Context3:36 The appointed responsibilities of the Merarites included the frames of the tabernacle, its crossbars, its posts, its sockets, its utensils, plus all the service connected with these things, 6
Numbers 16:29
Context16:29 If these men die a natural death, 7 or if they share the fate 8 of all men, then the Lord has not sent me.
[3:32] 1 tn The Hebrew construction has “the leader of the leaders of” (וּנְשִׂיא נְשִׂיאֵי, unÿsi’ nÿsi’ey).
[3:32] 2 tn Heb “the keepers of the responsibility” (שֹׁמְרֵי מִשְׁמֶרֶת, shomÿrey mishmeret). The participle is a genitive specifying the duty to which he was appointed (thing possessed); its cognate genitive emphasizes that their responsibility was over the holy place.
[4:16] 3 tn This is supplied to the line to clarify “appointed.”
[4:16] 5 sn One would assume that he would prepare and wrap these items, but that the Kohathites would carry them to the next place.
[3:36] 5 tn Heb “and all their service.” This could possibly be a hendiadys: “and all their working tools.” However, the parallel with v. 26 suggests this is a separate phrase.
[16:29] 7 tn Heb “if like the death of every man they die.”
[16:29] 8 tn The noun is פְּקֻדָּה (pÿquddah, “appointment, visitation”). The expression refers to a natural death, parallel to the first expression.





