1 Chronicles 23:3
Good News Translation
He took a census of all the male Levites aged thirty or older. The total was thirty-eight thousand.

New Revised Standard Version
The Levites, thirty years old and upward, were counted, and the total was thirty-eight thousand.

Contemporary English Version
He then counted the Levite men who were at least 30 years old, and the total was 38,000.

New American Bible
The Levites thirty years old and above were counted, and their total number was found to be thirty-eight thousand.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years, and upwards: and there were found of them thirty-eight thousand men.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years, and upwards: and there were found of them thirty-eight thousand men.

the Levites

Numbers 4:2,3,23,30,35,43,47 Take the sum of the sons of Caath from the midst of the Levites, by their houses and families. . . .

thirty and eight

Numbers 4:48 Were in all eight thousand five hundred and eighty.

Context
The Divisions of the Levites
2And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, and the priests and Levites. 3And the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years, and upwards: and there were found of them thirty-eight thousand men.4Of these twenty-four thousand were chosen, and distributed unto the ministry of the house of the Lord: and six thousand were the overseers and judges.…
Cross References
Numbers 4:3
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.

Numbers 4:23
From thirty years old and upward, unto fifty years old. Number them all that go in and minister in the tabernacle of the covenant.

Numbers 4:48
Were in all eight thousand five hundred and eighty.

Numbers 8:24
This is the law of the Levites: From twenty-five years old and upwards, they shall go in to minister in the tabernacle of the covenant.

1 Chronicles 23:2
And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, and the priests and Levites.

1 Chronicles 23:24
These are the sons of Levi in their kindreds and families, princes by their courses, and the number of every head that did the works of the ministry of the house of the Lord from twenty years old and upward.

2 Chronicles 31:16
Besides the males from three years old and upward, to all that went into the temple of the Lord, and whatsoever there was need of in the ministry, and their offices according to their courses, day by day.

1 Chronicles 23:2
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