Numbers 8:24 ““This applies to the Levites: Men twenty-five years of age or older sh…”

Numbers 8:24

“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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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:

World English Bible

“This is what is assigned to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to wait on the service in the work of the Tent of Meeting;

American Standard Version

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:

Geneva Bible 1599

This also belongeth to the Leuites: from fiue and twentie yeere olde and vpwarde, they shall goe in, to execute their office in the seruice of the Tabernacle of the Congregation.

Darby Translation

This is that which concerneth the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward shall he come to labour in the work of the service of the tent of meeting.

Young's Literal Translation

'This [is] that which [is] the Levites': from a son of five and twenty years and upward he doth go in to serve the host in the service of the tent of meeting,

Bible in Basic English

This is the rule for the Levites: those of twenty-five years old and over are to go in and do the work of the Tent of meeting;

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Cross references

“from twenty”

Numbers 4:3 1 Chronicles 23:3 Numbers 4:23 1 Chronicles 23:24–27 1 Chronicles 28:12 1 Chronicles 28:13

Numbers 4:3 · BSB

men from thirty to fifty years old—everyone who is qualified to serve in the work at the Tent of Meeting.

1 Chronicles 23:3 · BSB

The Levites thirty years of age or older were counted, and the total number of men was 38,000.

Numbers 4:23 · BSB

from thirty to fifty years old, counting everyone who comes to serve in the work at the Tent of Meeting.

1 Chronicles 23:24–27 · BSB

These were the descendants of Levi by their families—the heads of families, registered individually by name—those twenty years of age or older who worked in the service of the house of the LORD.

1 Chronicles 28:12 · BSB

The plans contained everything David had in mind for the courts of the house of the LORD, for all the surrounding rooms, for the treasuries of the house of God and of the dedicated things,

1 Chronicles 28:13 · BSB

for the divisions of the priests and Levites, for all the work of service in the house of the LORD, and for all the articles of service in the house of the LORD:

“wait upon”

1 Corinthians 9:7 2 Corinthians 10:4 2 Timothy 2:3–5 1 Timothy 1:18 1 Timothy 6:12

1 Corinthians 9:7 · BSB

Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not drink of its milk?

2 Corinthians 10:4 · BSB

The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the flesh. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.

2 Timothy 2:3–5 · BSB

Join me in suffering, like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

1 Timothy 1:18 · BSB

Timothy, my child, I entrust you with this command in keeping with the previous prophecies about you, so that by them you may fight the good fight,

1 Timothy 6:12 · BSB

Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made the good confession before many witnesses.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

23And the LORD said to Moses,

25But at the age of fifty, they must retire from performing the work and no longer serve.

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