Numbers 8:24
This is the law of the Levites: From twenty-five years old and upwards, they shall go in to minister in the tabernacle of the covenant.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
23And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
25And when they shall have accomplished the fiftieth year of their age, they shall cease to serve:
Cross References
Numbers 4:3From thirty years old and upward, to fifty years old, of all that go in to stand and to minister in the tabernacle of the covenant.
1 Chronicles 23:3And the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years, and upwards: and there were found of them thirty-eight thousand men.
1 Chronicles 28:12As also of all the courts, which he had in his thought, and of the chambers round about, for the treasures of the house of the Lord, and for the treasures of the consecrated things,
1 Corinthians 9:7Who serveth as a soldier at any time, at his own charges? Who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? Who feedeth the flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?
1 Timothy 1:18This precept I commend to thee, O son Timothy; according to the prophecies going before on thee, that thou war in them a good warfare,
2 Timothy 2:3Labour as 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 →