Exodus 30:30

Aaron and his sons In Exodus 29:7 (cf. Leviticus 8:12), 29 anointing is prescribed only for Aaron (the high priest), and his successors in the same office: and that originally it was only the high priest who was anointed seems to follow from the fact that he is called distinctively -the anointed priest," Leviticus 4:3; Leviticus 4:5; Leviticus 4:16; Leviticus 6:22 (cf. Exodus 16:32; Exodus 21:10; Exodus 21:12; Numbers 35:25). The extension of the ceremony to his -sons" (the ordinary priests) must represent a later usage: it is found here, Exodus 28:41; Exodus 40:15; Leviticus 7:36; Leviticus 10:7; Numbers 3:3. It is difficult to resist the inference that these passages belong to a later stratum of P. The reference can hardly be to the sprinkling with oil and blood noticed in Exodus 29:21; Leviticus 8:30; for this is not termed -anointing," and is subsequent to the anointing proper (Exodus 29:7; Leviticus 8:12).