1 Chronicles 23:3

Now the Levites were numbered, from thirty years old and upwards,—and their number by their polls, of mature men, was thirty-eight thousand.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 gathered together all the rulers of Israel, with the priests, and the Levites.

4Of these—to preside over the work of the house of Yahweh, were twenty-four thousand,—and officers and judges, six thousand;

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Cross References

Numbers 4:2Reckon up the sum of the sons of Kohath, out of the midst of the sons of Levi,—by their families by their ancestral house:

Numbers 4:46All they who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron and the princes of Israel did number, even the Levites, by their families and by their ancestral house;

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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