Numbers 8:24

This shall be the rule for the Levites: From twenty and five years old and upward shall he go into the ranks to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation;

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

This is it that belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation:

In Context

23And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying,

25And from the age of fifty years shall he go out of the ranks of the service, and he shall serve no more;

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Cross References

Numbers 4:3From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that are fitted for the service, to do work at the tabernacle of the congregation.

1 Chronicles 23:3And then were numbered the Levites from thirty years old and upward: and their number by their polls, of men, was thirty and eight thousand.

1 Chronicles 28:12And the pattern of all that he had in his spirit, concerning the courts of the house of the Lord, and concerning all the chambers round about, concerning the treasuries of the house of God, and concerning the treasuries of the holy things:

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 →

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