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.

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  1. Numbers 4:23 Lit muster, and so throughout the ch

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

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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.

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

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

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35 All the men from thirty to fifty years of age(A) who came to serve in the work at the tent of meeting,

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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.

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  1. Numbers 8:24 Lit he

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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Offices of the Levites

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

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  1. 1 Chronicles 23:3 Lit their heads

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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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.

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  1. 1 Chronicles 23:24 Lit mustered
  2. 1 Chronicles 23:24 Lit heads

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

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27 According to the last instructions of David, the Levites were counted from those twenty years old or more.

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Temple Restoration Begun

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.

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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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