Numbers 4:3
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New International Version (©2011)
Count all the men from thirty to fifty years of age who come to serve in the work at the tent of meeting.

New Living Translation (©2007)
List all the men between the ages of thirty and fifty who are eligible to serve in the Tabernacle.

English Standard Version (©2001)
from thirty years old up to fifty years old, all who can come on duty, to do the work in the tent of meeting.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
from thirty years and upward, even to fifty years old, all who enter the service to do the work in the tent of meeting.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
men from 30 years old to 50 years old--everyone who is qualified to do work at the tent of meeting."

International Standard Version (©2012)
from 30 years and older through the age of 50 years, from everyone who can enter the service to perform work at the Tent of Meeting.

NET Bible (©2006)
from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, all who enter the company to do the work in the tent of meeting.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Register all the men between the ages of 30 and 50 who are qualified to work at the tent of meeting.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter the service , to do the work in the tabernacle of meeting.

American 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.

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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
From thirty years old and upward, to fifty years old, of all that go in to stand and to minister in the tabernacle of the covenant.

Darby Bible Translation
from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, all that enter into the service, to do the work in the tent of meeting.

English Revised 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.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

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.

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.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

4:1-3 The middle-aged men of the tribe of Levi, all from thirty years old to fifty, were to be employed in the service of the tabernacle. The service of God requires the best of our strength, and the prime portion of our time, which cannot be better spent than to the honour of Him who is the First and Best. And the service of God should be done when we are most lively and active. Those do not consider this who put off repentance to old age, and so leave the best work to be done in the worst time.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 3. - From thirty years old and upward. The age at which they became liable for service was shortly after reduced to twenty-five (Numbers 8:24), and at a later period to twenty (1 Chronicles 23:27). In the wilderness a larger number of the men might be required to attend to their own camps, and their own families; but the explanation may probably be found in the unusually large proportion who were at this time between the ages of thirty and fifty. The Septuagint has altered thirty into twenty-five to make it agree with Numbers 8:24. Thirty years became among the Jews the perfect age at which a man attained to full maturity, and entered upon all his fights and duties (cf. Luke 3:23). Into the host. Not the military ranks, but the militia sacra of the Lord. To do the work. Literally, "to war the warfare."

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old,.... This is the full time of the Levites service, and the prime season of man's life for business; at thirty years of age he is at his full strength, and when fifty it begins to decline: it is said in the Misnah (x),"a son of thirty years for strength,''upon which one of the commentators (y) makes this remark, that the Levites set up the tabernacle and took it down, and loaded the wagons, and carried on their shoulders from thirty years and upwards: thus both John the Baptist, the forerunner of Christ, and Christ himself, entered into their ministry at this age:

all that enter into the host; army or warfare; for though the Levites were exempted from going forth to war, yet their service was a sort of warfare; they were a camp of themselves about the tabernacle, and part of their work was to watch and guard it, that it was neither defiled nor robbed; in allusion to this, the ministry of the word is called a warfare, and ministers of the Gospel good soldiers of Christ, and their doctrines weapons of warfare, 1 Timothy 1:18; some interpret this of the troop, company, or congregation of the Levites, which a man of thirty years of age was admitted into for business:

to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation; not in the sanctuary, either in the holy place or in the most holy place, where they were never allowed to enter, or do any business in, such as sacrificing, burning incense, &c. but in that part of it which was called "the tabernacle of the congregation", or where the people assembled on occasion, and that was the court, which was so called, as Jarchi observes on Exodus 29:32.

(x) Pirke Abot, c. 5. sect. 21. (y) Bartenora in Pirke Abot, c. 5. sect. 21.

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Duties of the Kohathites
1And the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 2Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers, 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. …

Numbers 4:2 "Take a census of the Kohathite branch of the Levites by their clans and families.
Numbers 4:4 "This is the work of the Kohathites at the tent of meeting: the care of the most holy things.
Numbers 4:23 Count all the men from thirty to fifty years of age who come to serve in the work at the tent of meeting.
Numbers 4:30 Count all the men from thirty to fifty years of age who come to serve in the work at the tent of meeting.
Numbers 8:24 "This applies to the Levites: Men twenty-five years old or more shall come to take part in the work at the tent of meeting,
2 Samuel 5:4 David was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years.
1 Chronicles 23:3 The Levites thirty years old or more were counted, and the total number of men was thirty-eight thousand.
1 Chronicles 23:24 These were the descendants of Levi by their families--the heads of families as they were registered under their names and counted individually, that is, the workers twenty years old or more who served in the temple of the LORD.
Ezra 3:8 In the second month of the second year after their arrival at the house of God in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jozadak and the rest of the people (the priests and the Levites and all who had returned from the captivity to Jerusalem) began the work. They appointed Levites twenty years old and older to supervise the building of the house of the LORD.