²³ from ^(A)thirty years and upward to fifty years old, you shall ^[a]number them; all who enter to perform the service to do the work in the tent of meeting.

³⁰ from ^(A)thirty years and upward even to fifty years old, you shall number them, everyone who enters the service to do the work of the tent of meeting.

³⁵ from ^(A)thirty years and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered the service for work in the tent of meeting.

²⁴ “This is what applies to the Levites: from ^(A)twenty-five years old and upward ^[a]they shall enter to perform service in the work of the tent of meeting.

Offices of the Levites

^3 (A)The Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward, and ^(B)their number by ^[a]census of men was 38,000.

Duties Revised

^24 (A)These were the sons of Levi according to their fathers’ households, even the heads of the fathers’ households of those of them who were ^[a]counted, in the number of names by their ^[b]census, doing the work for the service of the house of the Lord, ^(B)from twenty years old and upward.

²⁷ For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were numbered from twenty years old and upward.

Temple Restoration Begun

⁸ Now in the second year of their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem in the second month, ^(A)Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all who came from the captivity to Jerusalem, began the work and ^(B)appointed the Levites from twenty years and older to oversee the work of the house of the Lord.