Numbers 4:23

from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them: all that enter in to wait upon the service, to do service in the tent of meeting.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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

22'Take the sum of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers' houses, by their families;

24This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing burdens:

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Cross References

Numbers 4:3from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter upon the service, to do 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 and eight thousand.

1 Chronicles 23:27For by the last ordinances of David the sons of Levi were numbered 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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