Exodus 40:15

15a. For the common priests being anointed exactly as the high-priest (not prescribed in ch. 29), see Exodus 28:41; and cf. on Exodus 30:30.

15b. an everlasting priesthood It is to be for ever hereditary in Aaron's family. A perpetual priesthood is also promised to Aaron's -sons" in Exodus 29:9: but it is not, as here, based upon their being anointed; in fact, no anointing is there prescribed for them at all. The Rabbis, understanding the pron. in -their anointing" to refer to Aaron's sons alone, inferred that the anointing of Aaron's actual sons sufficed for the ordinary priests in all future ages, and that in the case of the ordinary priests the ceremony was never afterwards repeated (cf. Di., and Kalisch, Leviticus, pp. 666 8). But this is a forced and artificial interpretation: theirand to them refer naturally to Aaron and his sons together (Di.).