Numbers 4:16

4:16 “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 ¹  the appointed responsibility over all the tabernacle with ²  all that is in it, over the sanctuary and over all its furnishings.” ³ 

Numbers 4:27

4:27 “All the service of the Gershonites, whether ⁴  carrying loads ⁵  or for any of their work, will be at the direction of ⁶  Aaron and his sons. You will assign them all their tasks ⁷  as their responsibility.

[4:16]  ¹ tn This is supplied to the line to clarify “appointed.”

[4:16]  ² tn Heb “and.”

[4:16]  ³ sn One would assume that he would prepare and wrap these items, but that the Kohathites would carry them to the next place.

[4:27]  ⁴ tn The term “whether” is supplied to introduce the enumerated parts of the explanatory phrase.

[4:27]  ⁵ tn Here again is the use of the noun “burden” in the sense of the loads they were to carry (see the use of carts in Num 7:7).

[4:27]  ⁶ tn The expression is literally “upon/at the mouth of” (עַל־פִּי, ’al-pi); it means that the work of these men would be under the direct orders of Aaron and his sons.

[4:27]  ⁷ tn Or “burden.”