Numbers 4:47
from thirty years old and upwards, even unto fifty years old, all that might enter, to toil in the work of labouring and in the work of bearing burdens, in the tent of meeting,
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
48yea, they who were numbered of them were found to be—eight thousand, and five hundred, and eighty.
Cross References
Numbers 4:15So shall Aaron and his sons make an end of covering the sanctuary, and all the utensils of the sanctuary, when the camp is to set forward, then after that, shall the sons of Kohath enter to bear it, but they must not put forth a touch unto that which, is holy, else should they die, these, shall be the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting.
Numbers 4:30from thirty years old and upwards even to fifty years, shall ye number them,—all that enter into the host, to do laborious work in the tent of meeting,
1 Chronicles 23:3Now the Levites were numbered, from thirty years old and upwards,—and their number by their polls, of mature men, was thirty-eight thousand.
Romans 12:6Now, having gifts of favour, according to the favour given unto us, differing—whether prophesying, [let us use it] according to the proportion of our 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 →