Discovery BoxNumbers 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 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
Context4:27 “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.
1 tn This is supplied to the line to clarify “appointed.”
2 tn Heb “and.”
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 tn The term “whether” is supplied to introduce the enumerated parts of the explanatory phrase.
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).
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.
7 tn Or “burden.”
