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.

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.

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.

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)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.

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.

²⁷ For by the last words of David, the sons of Levi were counted 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, 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.