Numbers 8:24
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"This is what applies to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall enter to perform service in the work of the tent of meeting. (NASB ©1995)

Numbers 4:3 from thirty years and upward, even to fifty years old, all who enter the service to do the work in the tent of meeting.

1 Chronicles 23:3 The Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward, and their number by census of men was 38,000.

1 Chronicles 23:24 These were the sons of Levi according to their fathers' households, even the heads of the fathers' households of those of them who were counted, in the number of names by their census, doing the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from twenty years old and upward. (NASB ©1995)


This is it that belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation:

from twenty. In Ch. 4:3, the Levites are appointed to the service of the tabernacle at the age of 30 years; and in 1ch 23:24, they are ordered to commence their work at 20 years of age. In order to reconcile this apparent discrepancy, it is to be observed, 1. At the time of which Moses speaks in ch 4:3, the Levitical service was exceedingly severe, and consequently required full grown, robust men, to perform it; the age of 30 was therefore appointed as the period for commencing this service, the weightier part of which was probably there intended. 2. In this place God seems to speak of the service in a general way; hence the age of 25 is fixed. 3. In David's time, and afterwards, in the fixed tabernacle and temple, the labouriousness of the service no longer existed, and hence 20 years was the age appointed. Nu 4:3,23 1Ch 23:3,24-27 28:12,13

wait upon. Heb. war the warfare of 1Co 9:7 2Co 10:4 1Ti 1:18 6:12 2Ti 2:3-5

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