Eleazar

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Eleazar (or Elazar), (Hebrew: אֶלְעָזָר, Standard Elʻazar Tiberian Elʻāzār ; "God has helped") was a son of Aaron, a Levite priest and High Priest. His wife, a daughter of Putiel, bore him Phinehas. After the death of Nadab and Abihu, he was appointed to the charge of the sanctuary.

He fulfilled a number of functions over the course of the Wilderness wanderings, from creating the plating to the altar out of the firepans of Korah's assembly to performing the ritual of the red heifer.

On Mount Hor he was clothed with the sacred vestments, which Moses took from off his father Aaron and put upon him as successor to his father in the high priest's office, which he held for more than twenty years. He took part with Moses in numbering the people, and assisted at the inauguration of Joshua.

He assisted in the distribution of the land after the conquest. When he died, he "was buried at Gibeah, which had been allotted to his son Phinehas in the hill country of Ephraim" (Joshua 24:33).

The high-priesthood remained in the family of Eleazer until the time of Eli, into whose family it passed (Eli was a descendant of Ithamar, Eleazers's brother[1]).

The high priesthood was restored to the family of Eleazar in the person of Zadok after Abiathar was cast out by Solomon (prophesied in I Sm 2:30–6; fulfilled in I Kg 2:26–7).

He is commemorated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church on September 2, and as one of the Holy Forefathers in the Calendar of Saints of the Armenian Apostolic Church on July 30.

According to the Documentary Hypothesis, in the Elohist (E) document, Eliezer is the son of Moses not Aaron (Ex 18:4).

References

1. ^ Josephus.


Preceded by
Aaron		High Priest of Israel
Years unknown		Succeeded by
Phinehas
Eleazar (Hebrew: אלעזר‎, lit. God's assistance) is a common Hebrew name.
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Writing system: Alefbet Ivri abjad 
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Tiberian Hebrew is an extinct oral tradition of pronunciation for ancient Hebrew, especially the Hebrew of the Tanakh, that was given written form by masoretic scholars in the Jewish community at Tiberias in the early Middle Ages, beginning in the 8th century.
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Elohim (אֱלוֹהִים , אלהים ) is a Hebrew word which expresses concepts of divinity.
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In the Jewish tradition, a Levite (Hebrew: לֵוִי, Standard  
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kohen (or cohen, Hebrew כּהן, "priest", pl. כּהנִים, kohanim or cohanim), is assumed to be a direct male descendant of the Biblical Aaron, brother of Moses.
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Kohen Gadol or Kohen ha-Gadol (Heb. כהן גדול "Great Priest") is the title of of early Israelite religion and of classical Judaism from the rise of the Israelite nation until the destruction of the Second Temple of Jerusalem.
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Phinehas or Pinhas (Hebrew: פִּינְחָס, Standard  
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Moses (Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה, Standard  
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Ithamar (Hebrew: אִיתָמָר, Standard  
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Zadok (Hebrew: צדוק, Tzadok meaning "Righteous") was the Israelite High Priest of the tenth century BC.

Zadok in the Bible

A son of Ahitub, of the line of Eleazar (2 Samuel 8:17; 1 Chronicles 24:3), high priest in the time of David (2 Sam.
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Abiathar (אביתר, Ebyathar, Evyatar, the [divine] father is pre-eminent), in the Bible, son of Achimelech or Ahijah, priest at Nob, the fourth in descent from Eli.
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Solomon (Hebrew: שְׁלֹמֹה, Standard  
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documentary hypothesis (DH) proposes that the first five books of the Old Testament (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy, known collectively as the Torah or Pentateuch), represent a combination of documents from four originally independent sources:

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Elohist (E) is one of four sources of the Torah postulated by the documentary hypothesis. Its name comes from the term it uses for God: Elohim. It portrays a God who is less anthropomorphic than YHWH of the earlier Jahwist source ("J").
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It is unknown who held the position of High Priest of Jerusalem between Alcimus' death and the accession of Jonathan.

Josephus, in Jewish Antiquities
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Phinehas or Pinhas (Hebrew: פִּינְחָס, Standard  
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