Numbers 4:23

Take the number of them from five and twenty years old and upwards until the age of fifty, every one that goes in to minister, to do his business in the tabernacle of witness.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them; all that enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.

In Context

22Take the sum of the children of Gedson, and these according to the houses of their lineage, according to their families.

24This is the public service of the family of Gedson, to minister and to bear.

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Cross References

Numbers 4:3from twenty-five years old and upward until fifty years, every one that goes in to minister, to do all the works in the tabernacle of witness.

1 Chronicles 23:3And the Levites numbered themselves from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls amounted to thirty and eight thousand men.

1 Chronicles 23:27For by the last words of David was the number of the Levites taken from twenty years old and upward.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 4:22-34

21 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 22 Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon, throughout the houses of their fathers, by their families; 23 From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them; all that enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation. 24 This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens: 25 And they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tabernacle of the congregation, his covering,… Read the whole commentary →

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