1 Chronicles 23:3

The Levites thirty years of age or older were counted, and the total number of men was 38,000.

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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

2Then he gathered all the leaders of Israel, as well as the priests and Levites.

4“Of these,” said David, “24,000 are to oversee the work of the house of the LORD, 6,000 are to be officers and judges,

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Cross References

Numbers 4:2“Take a census of the Kohathites among the Levites by their clans and families,

Numbers 4:46So Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of Israel numbered by their clans and families all the Levites

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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