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Selected Verse: Numbers 4:23 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Nu 4:23 |
King James |
From 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. |
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| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| enter in to perform the service - literally, as in the margin, "to war the warfare," or, as the same phrase in part is rendered, Num 4:3, "enter into the host to do the work." The language is military. The service of God is a sacred warfare (Num 8:24-25 marginal reading). |
24 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:
25 And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more:
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.