KJV King James Version
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.
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Numbers 4:3
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.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
men from thirty to fifty years old—everyone who is qualified to serve in the work at the Tent of Meeting.
WEB World English Bible
from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all who enter into the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.
ASV American Standard Version
from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter upon the service, to do the work in the tent of meeting.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
from a son of thirty years and upward, even till a son of fifty years, every one going in to the host, to do work in the tent of meeting.
Surrounding context — Numbers 4
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
2 Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
3 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.
4 This [shall be] the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, [about] the most holy things:
5 And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering vail, and cover the ark of testimony with it:
6 And shall put thereon the covering of badgers’ skins, and shall spread over [it] a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof.
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מִבֶּ֨ןH1121 · benson: childשְׁלֹשִׁ֤יםH7970 · she.lo.shimthirtyשָׁנָה֙H8141 · sha.nehyearוָמַ֔עְלָהH4605 · ma.alaboveוְעַ֖דH5704 · adtillבֶּן־H1121 · benson: childחֲמִשִּׁ֣יםH2572 · cha.mish.shimfiftyשָׁנָ֑הH8141 · sha.nehyearכָּל־H3605 · kolallבָּא֙H935 · boto come (in): comeלַצָּבָ֔אH6635 · tsa.vaarmyלַעֲשׂ֥וֹתH6213 · a.sahto make: doמְלָאכָ֖הH4399 · me.la.khahworkבְּאֹ֥הֶלH168 · o.heltentמוֹעֵֽד׃H4150 · mo.edmeeting: time appointed
Cross-references
Numbers 4:23From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them; all that enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.2 Kings 11:4-12And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and shewed them the king’s son.1 Chronicles 23:24-32These [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.1 Chronicles 23:3-5Now 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 8:24-26This [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:Luke 3:23And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was [the son] of Heli,Ephesians 6:10-18Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.2 Corinthians 10:3-4For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:1 Chronicles 6:48Their brethren also the Levites [were] appointed unto all manner of service of the tabernacle of the house of God.Genesis 41:46And Joseph [was] thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.Numbers 4:30From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old shalt thou number them, every one that entereth into the service, to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation.Numbers 3:7-8And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of the congregation, to do the service of the tabernacle.Numbers 4:35From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation:1 Timothy 3:6Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.1 Chronicles 28:12-13And the pattern of all that he had by the spirit, of the courts of the house of the LORD, and of all the chambers round about, of the treasuries of the house of God, and of the treasuries of the dedicated things:1 Timothy 1:18This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;Ezra 3:8Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the LORD.Numbers 16:9[Seemeth it but] a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them?
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