24 This also belongeth to the Levites: from five and twenty years old and upward, they shall go in, to execute their office in the service of the Tabernacle of the Congregation.

25 And after the age of fifty years, they shall cease from executing the [a]office, and shall serve no more.

26 But they shall minister [b]with their brethren in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, to keep things committed to their charge, but they shall do no service: thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charge.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 8:25 Such office as was painful, as to bear burdens and such like.
  2. Numbers 8:26 In singing Psalms, instructing, counseling and keeping the things in order.

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