47From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that came to do the service of the ministry, and the service of the burden in the tabernacle of the congregation,
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Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; …
Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. …
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.
These were they that were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, which Moses and Aaron did number according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
For by the last words of David the Levites were numbered from twenty years old and above:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 34-49)We have here a particular account of the numbers of the three families of the Levites respectively, that is, of the effective men, between thirty years old and fifty. Observe, 1. The Kohathites were, in all, 8600 from a month old and upwards; but of these there were but 2750 serviceable men, not a third part. The Gershonites, in all, 7500, and of them but 2630 serviceable men, little more than a t…
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