Numbers 4:47

from thirty to fifty years old. They counted everyone who would do work in the tabernacle, and who would carry and care for the items in the tent of meeting.

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In The King James Version

From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that came to do the service of the ministry, and the service of the burden in the tabernacle of the congregation,

In Context

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

48They counted 8,580 men.

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Cross References

Numbers 4:15When Aaron and his sons have completely covered the holy place and all its equipment, and when the camp moves forward, then the descendants of Kohath must come to carry the holy place. If they touch the holy instruments, they must die. This is the work of the descendants of Kohath, to carry the furnishings in the tent of meeting.

Numbers 4:30from thirty years old and older up to fifty years old. Count everyone who is going to join the company and serve in the tent of meeting.

1 Chronicles 23:3The Levites who were thirty years old and older were counted. They numbered thirty-eight thousand.

Romans 12:6We have different gifts according to the grace that was given to us. If one's gift is prophecy, let it be done according to the proportion of his faith.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 4:35-49

34 And Moses and Aaron and the chief of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites after their families, and after the house of their fathers, 35 From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation: 36 And those that were numbered of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred and fifty. 37 These were they that were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all that might do service in the… Read the whole commentary →

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