23 from (A)thirty years old and upward to fifty years old you shall [a]count them: all who can enter to perform 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 old and upward, even to fifty years old, you shall count them, everyone who can enter 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 old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who could enter 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)Now the Levites were counted from thirty years old and upward, and (B)their number by [a]head count of men was thirty-eight thousand.

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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, the heads of the fathers’ households of those among them who were [a]counted, in the number of names by their [b]head count, 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 counted 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, 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 who were twenty years old and upward 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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