him gifts. Even the Angel of Death confided his secret to Moses, and that is how Moses knew what to do when, as reports, Moses told Aaron what to do to make atonement for the people, to stand between the dead and the living, and to check the plague. A Baraita taught that Josiah hid away Aaron's rod with its almonds and blossoms referred to in , the Ark referred to in , the jar of manna referred to in , the anointing oil referred to in , and the coffer that the Philistines sent the Israelites as a gift along with the Ark and concerning which the priests said in , “And put the jewels of gold, which you returned Him for a guilt offering, in a coffer by the side thereof [of the Ark]; and send it away that it may go.” Having observed that predicted, “The Lord will bring you and your king . . . to a nation that you have not known,” Josiah ordered the Ark hidden away, as 2 Chronicles reports, “And he [Josiah] said to the Levites who taught all Israel, that were holy to the Lord, ‘Put the Holy Ark into the house that Solomon the son of David, King of Israel, built; there shall no more be a burden upon your shoulders; now serve the Lord your God and his people Israel.’” Rabbi Eleazar deduced that Josiah hid the anointing oil and the other objects at the same time as the Ark from the common use of the expressions “there” in with regard to the manna and “there” in with regard to the Ark, “to be kept” in with regard to the manna and “to be kept” in with regard to Aaron's rod, and “generations” in with regard to the manna and “generations” in with regard to the anointing oil. Numbers chapter 18 The Rabbis derived from the words of , "That they [the Levites] may be joined to you [Aaron] and minister to you," that the priests watched from upper chambers in the Temple and the Levites from lower chambers. The Gemara taught that in the north of the Temple was the Chamber of the Spark, built like a veranda (open on one or more sides) with a doorway to the non-sacred part, and there the priests kept watch in a chamber above and the Levites below. The Rabbis noted