from thirty years old and upwards even to fifty years, shalt thou number them,—All that may enter to take rank in the host, to do laborious work in the tent of meeting.
This charge, I commit unto thee, child Timothy, According to the prophecies, running before on thee, in order that thou mightest war, with them, the noble warfare.
For, the flesh, coveted against the Spirit, but, the Spirit, against the flesh,—for, these, unto one another, are opposed, lest, whatsoever things ye chance to desire, these, ye should be doing!
Who serveth as a soldier, at his own charges, at any time? Who planteth a vineyard,—and, the fruit thereof, doth not eat? Or who shepherdeth a flock,—and, of the milk of the flock, doth not eat?
These, were the sons of Levi by their ancestral house, the ancestral chiefs of them who were counted in the number of their names, by their polls, doing the work, for the service of the house of Yahweh,—from twenty years old, and upwards.