Numbers 8:24

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:

This is it that belongeth unto the Levites {H3881}: from twenty {H6242} and five {H2568} years {H8141} old {H1121} and upward {H4605} they shall go in {H935} to wait {H6633}{H6635} upon the service {H5656} of the tabernacle {H168} of the congregation {H4150}:

"Here are instructions concerning the L'vi'im: when they reach the age of twenty-five, they are to begin performing their duties serving in the tent of meeting;

“This applies to the Levites: Men twenty-five years of age or older shall enter to perform the service in the work at the Tent of Meeting.

This is that which belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service in the work of the tent of meeting:

Commentary

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Cross-References

  • 1 Chronicles 23:3 (5 votes)

    Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.

  • Numbers 4:3 (5 votes)

    From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.

  • 2 Timothy 2:3 (2 votes)

    Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

  • 2 Timothy 2:5 (2 votes)

    And if a man also strive for masteries, [yet] is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.

  • 1 Corinthians 9:7 (2 votes)

    Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?

  • 2 Corinthians 10:4 (2 votes)

    (For the weapons of our warfare [are] not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)

  • 1 Chronicles 23:24 (2 votes)

    ¶ These [were] the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; [even] the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from the age of twenty years and upward.