3From 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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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.
And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being(as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,
And 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. …
Now 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. …
Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-20)We have here a second muster of the tribe of Levi. As that tribe was taken out of all Israel to be God’s peculiar, so the middle-aged men of that tribe were taken from among the rest to be actually employed in the service of the tabernacle. Now observe, I. Who were to be taken into this number. All the males from thirty years old to fifty. Of the other tribes, those that were numbered to go forth…
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