This is what belongs to the Levites: From twenty-five years old and older they will go in to do their duty concerning the service of the tent of meeting.
The registration of the priests was according to the house of their fathers and the Levites from twenty years and above, according to their duties and their divisions.
But the Levites will camp around the tabernacle of the testimony, so there will be no wrath on the congregation of the Israelites. And the Levites will keep the charge of the tabernacle of the testimony.
From thirty years old and older to fifty years old you will number them, all that enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the tent of meeting.
From thirty years old and older, even to fifty years old, you will number them, everyone who enters into the service, to do the work of the tent of meeting.
Who goes to war at any time at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, but does not eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, but does not drink of the flock’s milk?
This command I commit to you, my son Timothy, according to the prophecies that were previously given to you, that by them you might fight a good fight,