Discovery BoxNumbers 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 4:33
Context4:33 This is the service of the families of the Merarites, their entire service concerning the tent of meeting, under the authority of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.”
Numbers 5:25-26
Context5:25 The priest will take the grain offering of suspicion from the woman’s hand, wave the grain offering before the Lord, and bring it to the altar. 5:26 Then the priest will take a handful of the grain offering as its memorial portion, burn it on the altar, and afterward make the woman drink the water.
Numbers 6:10
Context6:10 On the eighth day he is to bring 3 two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest, to the entrance to the tent of meeting.
Numbers 7:8
Context7:8 and he gave four carts and eight oxen to the Merarites, as their service required, under the authority 4 of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.
Numbers 16:39
Context16:39 So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers presented by those who had been burned up, and they were hammered out as a covering for the altar.
Numbers 19:3
Context19:3 You must give it to Eleazar the priest so that he can take it outside the camp, and it must be slaughtered before him. 5
Numbers 19:6
Context19:6 And the priest must take cedar wood, hyssop, 6 and scarlet wool and throw them into the midst of the fire where the heifer is burning. 7
Numbers 25:7
Context25:7 When Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, 8 he got up from among the assembly, took a javelin in his hand,
Numbers 26:3
Context26:3 So Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab, by the Jordan River 9 across from Jericho. 10 They said,
Numbers 26:63
Context26:63 These are those who were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the Israelites in the plains of Moab along the Jordan River opposite Jericho. 11
Numbers 27:2
Context27:2 And they stood before Moses and Eleazar the priest and the leaders of the whole assembly at the entrance to the tent of meeting and said,
Numbers 27:22
Context27:22 So Moses did as the Lord commanded him; he took Joshua and set 12 him before Eleazar the priest and before the whole community.
Numbers 31:21
Context31:21 Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had gone into the battle, “This is the ordinance of the law that the Lord commanded Moses:
Numbers 31:26
Context31:26 “You and Eleazar the priest, and all the family leaders of the community, take the sum 13 of the plunder that was captured, both people and animals.
Numbers 31:29
Context31:29 You are to take it from their half-share and give it to Eleazar the priest for a raised offering to the Lord.
Numbers 31:41
Context31:41 So Moses gave the tribute, which was the Lord’s raised offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses.
Numbers 32:28
Context32:28 So Moses gave orders about them to Eleazar the priest, to Joshua son of Nun, and to the heads of the families of the Israelite tribes.
Numbers 34:17
Context34:17 “These are the names of the men who are to allocate the land to you as an inheritance: 14 Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun.
1 tn The Hebrew construction has “the leader of the leaders of” (וּנְשִׂיא נְשִׂיאֵי, unÿsi’ nÿsi’ey).
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.
3 tn The imperfect tense in this verse is still instructional rather than a simple future. The translations can vary, but the point that it is directive must be caught.
4 tn Heb “hand.”
5 tc The clause is a little ambiguous. It reads “and he shall slaughter it before him.” It sounds as if someone else will kill the heifer in the priest’s presence. Since no one is named as the subject, it may be translated as a passive. Some commentators simply interpret that Eleazar was to kill the animal personally, but that is a little forced for “before him.” The Greek text gives a third person plural sense to the verb; the Vulgate follows that reading.
6 sn In addition to the general references, see R. K. Harrison, “The Biblical Problem of Hyssop,” EvQ 26 (1954): 218-24.
7 sn There is no clear explanation available as to why these items were to be burned with the heifer. N. H. Snaith suggests that in accordance with Babylonian sacrifices they would have enhanced the rites with an aroma (Leviticus and Numbers [NCB], 272). In Lev 14 the wood and the hyssop may have been bound together by the scarlet wool to make a sprinkling device. It may be that the symbolism is what is important here. Cedar wood, for example, is durable; it may have symbolized resistance to future corruption and defilement, an early acquired immunity perhaps (R. K. Harrison, Numbers [WEC], 256).
8 tn The first clause is subordinated to the second because both begin with the preterite verbal form, and there is clearly a logical and/or chronological sequence involved.
9 tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity (also in v. 62).
10 map For the location of Jericho see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
11 map For the location of Jericho see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
12 tn Heb “stood.”
13 tn The idiom here is “take up the head,” meaning take a census, or count the totals.
14 tn The verb can be translated simply as “divide,” but it has more the idea of allocate as an inheritance, the related noun being “inheritance.”
