1 Chronicles 23:3

The Levites who were thirty years old and older were counted. They numbered thirty-eight thousand.

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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

2He gathered together all the leaders of Israel, with the priests and Levites.

4“Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of Yahweh's house, and six thousand were officers and judges.

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Cross References

Numbers 4:2“Conduct a census of the male descendants of Kohath from among the Levites, by their clans and families.

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

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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