Numbers 8:24
This is that which belongs to the Levites: From twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service in the work of the tent of meeting.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
23And LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
25And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the work, and shall serve no more,
Cross References
Numbers 4:3from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all who enter upon the service, to do the work in the tent of meeting.
1 Chronicles 23:3And the Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward. And their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.
1 Chronicles 28:12and the pattern of all that he had by the Spirit, for the courts of the house of LORD, and for all the chambers round about, for the treasuries of the house of God, and for the treasuries of the dedicated things,
1 Corinthians 9:7Who ever enlists in an army at his own wage? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat from the fruit of it? Or who feeds a flock and does not eat from the milk of the flock?
1 Timothy 1:18This command I set before thee, child Timothy, according to the prophecies leading the way for thee, so that by them thou might war the good warfare.
2 Timothy 2:3Thou therefore endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 8:6-26
The Consecration of the Levites. ( b. c. 1490.) 5 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 6 Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them. 7 And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean. 8 Then let them take a young bullock with his meat offering, even fine flour mingled with oil, and another young bullock shalt thou take for a sin offering. 9 And thou… Read the whole commentary →