24 (A)These were the sons of Levi by their fathers' houses, the heads of fathers' houses (B)as they were listed according to the number of the names of the individuals from (C)twenty years old and upward who were to do the work for the service of the house of the Lord.

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24 These were the descendants of Levi by their families—the heads of families as they were registered under their names and counted individually, that is, the workers twenty years old or more(A) who served in the temple of the Lord.

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24 These were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the Lord, from the age of twenty years and upward.

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17 The enrollment of the priests was according to their fathers' houses; that of the Levites (A)from twenty years old and upward was according to their offices, by their divisions.

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17 And they distributed to the priests enrolled by their families in the genealogical records and likewise to the Levites twenty years old or more, according to their responsibilities and their divisions.

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17 Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their charges by their courses;

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Rebuilding the Temple

Now in the second year after their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, (A)Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and (B)Jeshua the son of Jozadak made a beginning, together with the rest of their kinsmen, the priests and the Levites and all who had come to Jerusalem from the captivity. They (C)appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to (D)supervise the work of the house of the Lord.

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In the second month(A) of the second year after their arrival at the house of God in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel(B) son of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jozadak and the rest of the people (the priests and the Levites and all who had returned from the captivity to Jerusalem) began the work. They appointed Levites twenty(C) years old and older to supervise the building of the house of the Lord.

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Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the Lord.

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The Levites, (A)thirty years old and upward, were numbered, and (B)the total was (C)38,000 men.

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The Levites thirty years old or more(A) were counted,(B) and the total number of men was thirty-eight thousand.(C)

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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.

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(A)from thirty years old up to fifty years old, all who can come on duty, to do the work in the tent of meeting.

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Count(A) all the men from thirty to fifty years of age(B) who come to serve in the work at the tent of meeting.

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From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.

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24 “This applies to the Levites: (A)from twenty-five years old and upward they[a] shall come to do duty in the service of the tent of meeting.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 8:24 Hebrew he; also verses 25, 26

24 “This applies to the Levites: Men twenty-five years old or more(A) shall come to take part in the work at the tent of meeting,(B)

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24 This is it that belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation:

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