Numbers 8:24
“This is the law of the Levites: From twenty-five years and above, they shall enter to minister in the tabernacle of the covenant.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
In Context
23And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
25And when they will have completed the fiftieth year of age, they shall cease to serve.
Cross References
Numbers 4:3from thirty years and above, even to the fiftieth year, of all who enter so as to stand and minister in the tabernacle of the covenant.
1 Chronicles 23:3And the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward. And there were found thirty-eight thousand men.
1 Chronicles 28:12and indeed also of all the courts that he had planned, and the outer rooms on all sides, for the treasuries of the house of the Lord, and for the treasuries of the holy things,
1 Corinthians 9:7Who has ever served as a soldier and paid his own stipend? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat from its produce? Who pastures a flock and does not drink from the milk of the flock?
1 Timothy 1:18This precept I commend to you, my son Timothy, in accord with the prophets who preceded you: that you serve among them like a soldier in a good war,
2 Timothy 2:3Labor like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
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 →