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Eleazar and Moses
How Eleazar and Moses are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Moses confronted Eleazar.
After Nadab and Abihu died, Moses was angry with Eleazar and his brother Ithamar for burning the sin offering instead of eating it. Aaron answered for his sons, and Moses was content.
he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron which were left alive
Leviticus 10:16, King James Version
Where they cross: Leviticus 10:16-20
Eleazar and Moses stood together.
After Aaron's death, Eleazar the priest worked beside Moses. Together they numbered the people in the plains of Moab, and Moses set Joshua before Eleazar to be commissioned.
Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount
Numbers 20:28, King James Version
These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest
Numbers 26:63, King James Version
he took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest
Numbers 27:22, King James Version
Where they cross: Numbers 26:1-4
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
Leviticus 10:16-20
16And Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin offering, and, behold, it was burnt: and he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron which were left alive, saying,
17Wherefore have ye not eaten the sin offering in the holy place, seeing it is most holy, and God hath given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make atonement for them before the Lord?
18Behold, the blood of it was not brought in within the holy place: ye should indeed have eaten it in the holy place, as I commanded.
19And Aaron said unto Moses, Behold, this day have they offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the Lord; and such things have befallen me: and if I had eaten the sin offering to day, should it have been accepted in the sight of the Lord?
20And when Moses heard that, he was content.
Numbers 20:28
28And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount.
Numbers 26:1-4
1And it came to pass after the plague, that the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,
2Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers’ house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.
3And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
4Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as the Lord commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt.
Numbers 26:63
63These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
Numbers 27:22
22And Moses did as the Lord commanded him: and he took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation:
King James Version