1 Chronicles 23:3

and the Levites are numbered from a son of thirty years and upward, and their number, for their counted heads, is of thirty-eight thousand mighty men.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.

In Context

2and gathers all the heads of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites;

4Of these, twenty-four thousand [are] to preside over the work of the house of YHWH, and six thousand officers and judges,

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Cross References

Numbers 4:2“Take a census of the sons of Kohath from the midst of the sons of Levi, by their families, by the house of their fathers;

Numbers 4:46All those numbered, whom Moses numbered—Aaron also, and the princes of Israel—of the Levites, by their families, and by the house of their fathers,

Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 23:2-24

The Numbering of the Levites. ( b. c. 1015.) 1 So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel. 2 And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites. 3 Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand. 4 Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the Lord ; and six thousand were officers and judges: 5 Moreover four… Read the whole commentary →

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