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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
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Study note
Setting — The LORD addresses Moses to establish the minimum age for Levitical service at the Tent of Meeting.
The words — זֹאת (zot) means "this," and the phrase מִבֶּן חָמֵשׁ וְעֶשְׂרִים שָׁנָה וָמַעְלָה (mi ben chamesh ve-esrim shanah u'ma'alah) literally translates to "from a son of five and twenty years and upwards."
The thread — The passage connects to other biblical age thresholds for Levitical duty in Numbers 4:3, Numbers 4:23, and 1 Chronicles 23:3.
Why it lands — The verse sets a concrete twenty-five-year minimum for entering Tent of Meeting service.
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The Hebrew words
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:
Cross-references
- Numbers 4:3 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 The Levites thirty years of age or older were counted, and the total number of men was 38,000.
- Numbers 4:23 from thirty to fifty years old, counting everyone who comes to serve in the work at the Tent of Meeting.
- 1 Chronicles 23:24 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 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 Corinthians 9:7 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 The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the flesh. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
- 2 Timothy 2:3 Join me in suffering, like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
- 1 Timothy 1:18 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 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.