David assembled all the leaders of Israel and the priests and the Levites.
1 Chronicles 23:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 The Levites, thirty years old and up, were counted, and the total head count of men was thirty-eight thousand. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The Levites thirty years old and upward numbered, man by man, 38,000, American Standard Version (1901) And the Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand. Common English Bible When the Levites were counted, the head count of every male 30 and older totaled 38,000. Catholic Public Domain Version And the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward. And there were found thirty-eight thousand men. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years, and upwards: and there were found of them thirty-eight thousand men. |
David assembled all the leaders of Israel and the priests and the Levites.
These were the sons of Levi by their ancestral houses, the heads of families as they were enrolled according to the number of the names of the individuals from twenty years old and up who were to do the work for the service of the house of the Lord.
except those enrolled by genealogy, males from three years old and up, all who entered the house of the Lord as the duty of each day required, for their service according to their offices, by their divisions.
“This applies to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and up they shall begin to do duty in the service of the tent of meeting;