Numbers 4:3
men from thirty to fifty years old—everyone who is qualified to serve in the work at the Tent of Meeting.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
2“Take a census of the Kohathites among the Levites by their clans and families,
4This service of the Kohathites at the Tent of Meeting regards the most holy things.
Cross References
Numbers 1:3You and Aaron are to number those who are twenty years of age or older by their divisions—everyone who can serve in Israel’s army.
Numbers 3:7They are to perform duties for him and for the whole congregation before the Tent of Meeting, attending to the service of the tabernacle.
Numbers 4:30from thirty to fifty years old, counting everyone who comes to serve in the work of the Tent of Meeting.
Numbers 4:47from thirty to fifty years old who came to do the work of serving and carrying the Tent of Meeting.
Numbers 16:9Is it not enough for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel and brought you near to Himself to perform the work at the LORD’s tabernacle, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them?
1 Chronicles 6:48Their fellow Levites were assigned to every kind of service of the tabernacle, the house of God.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 4:2-21
The Office of the Levites. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, 2 Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers, 3 From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation. 4 This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, about the most holy things: 5 And when the camp setteth forward,… Read the whole commentary →