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The Levites counted from thirty years old and upward, thirty-eight thousand, and their work

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1 Chronicles 23:3–5: the text says, “The Levites were counted from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.” David says, “Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of the LORD’s house, six thousand were officers and judges, four thousand were doorkeepers, and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made for giving praise.” The Korean Revised Version gives 23:4–5 as the text’s own words, with no speaker, and names the instruments 다윗의 찬송하기 위하여 지은 악기 (the instruments David made for praising).

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1CH 23:3–5, engwebp
³The Levites were counted from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.
⁴David said, “Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of the LORD’s house, six thousand were officers and judges,
⁵four thousand were doorkeepers, and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made for giving praise.”
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Unresolved interpretation: The ages at which the Levites were counted in 1 Chronicles 23

Numbers 4:34–35 says that Moses and Aaron and the princes of the congregation counted the sons of the Kohathites “from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service for work in the Tent of Meeting”, and 4:46–47 counts the Levites “from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered in to do the work of service and the work of bearing burdens in the Tent of Meeting”.
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- NUM 4:34–49, engwebp
  ³⁴Moses and Aaron and the princes of the congregation counted the sons of the Kohathites by their families, and by their fathers’ houses,
  ³⁵from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service for work in the Tent of Meeting.
  ³⁶Those who were counted of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred fifty.
  ³⁷These are those who were counted of the families of the Kohathites, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron counted according to the commandment of the LORD by Moses.
  ³⁸Those who were counted of the sons of Gershon, by their families, and by their fathers’ houses,
  ³⁹from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old—everyone who entered into the service for work in the Tent of Meeting,
  ⁴⁰even those who were counted of them, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, were two thousand six hundred thirty.
  ⁴¹These are those who were counted of the families of the sons of Gershon, all who served in the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron counted according to the commandment of the LORD.
  ⁴²Those who were counted of the families of the sons of Merari, by their families, by their fathers’ houses,
  ⁴³from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old—everyone who entered into the service for work in the Tent of Meeting,
  ⁴⁴even those who were counted of them by their families, were three thousand two hundred.
  ⁴⁵These are those who were counted of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron counted according to the commandment of the LORD by Moses.
  ⁴⁶All those who were counted of the Levites whom Moses and Aaron and the princes of Israel counted, by their families and by their fathers’ houses,
  ⁴⁷from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered in to do the work of service and the work of bearing burdens in the Tent of Meeting,
  ⁴⁸even those who were counted of them, were eight thousand five hundred eighty.
  ⁴⁹According to the commandment of the LORD they were counted by Moses, everyone according to his service and according to his burden. Thus they were counted by him, as the LORD commanded Moses.
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Numbers 8:23–25 says that the LORD spoke to Moses, “This is what is assigned to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to wait on the service in the work of the Tent of Meeting; and from the age of fifty years they shall retire from doing the work, and shall serve no more”.
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- NUM 8:23–26, engwebp
  ²³The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
  ²⁴“This is what is assigned to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to wait on the service in the work of the Tent of Meeting;
  ²⁵and from the age of fifty years they shall retire from doing the work, and shall serve no more,
  ²⁶but shall assist their brothers in the Tent of Meeting, to perform the duty, and shall perform no service. This is how you shall have the Levites do their duties.”
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1 Chronicles 23:3 says, “The Levites were counted from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.”
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- 1CH 23:3–5, engwebp
  ³The Levites were counted from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.
  ⁴David said, “Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of the LORD’s house, six thousand were officers and judges,
  ⁵four thousand were doorkeepers, and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made for giving praise.”
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1 Chronicles 23:24 names the heads of the fathers’ houses of the sons of Levi “who did the work for the service of the LORD’s house, from twenty years old and upward”, and 23:27 says, “For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were counted, from twenty years old and upward.”
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- 1CH 23:24–27, engwebp
  ²⁴These were the sons of Levi after their fathers’ houses, even the heads of the fathers’ houses of those who were counted individually, in the number of names by their polls, who did the work for the service of the LORD’s house, from twenty years old and upward.
  ²⁵For David said, “The LORD, the God of Israel, has given rest to his people; and he dwells in Jerusalem forever.
  ²⁶Also the Levites will no longer need to carry the tabernacle and all its vessels for its service.”
  ²⁷For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were counted, from twenty years old and upward.
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Ezra 3:8 says that Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, Jeshua the son of Jozadak, the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come out of the captivity to Jerusalem began the work “and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of the LORD’s house”.
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- EZR 3:8–9, engwebp
  ⁸Now in the second year of their coming to God’s house at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come out of the captivity to Jerusalem, began the work and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of the LORD’s house.
  ⁹Then Jeshua stood with his sons and his brothers, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together to have the oversight of the workmen in God’s house: the sons of Henadad, with their sons and their brothers the Levites.
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Numbers 4:34–49 counts the Levites from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old for the service of the Tent of Meeting, and Numbers 8:23–25 says that the LORD told Moses that the Levites shall go in to serve from twenty-five years old and upward and retire from the work at fifty. 1 Chronicles 23:3 says that the Levites were counted from thirty years old and upward; 23:24 and 23:27 give twenty years old and upward, and 23:27 says that they were counted so “by the last words of David”. Ezra 3:8 says that Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, Jeshua the son of Jozadak, the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come out of the captivity to Jerusalem appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of the LORD’s house. The text does not say why 1 Chronicles 23 gives thirty years in one verse and twenty in others. This collection records the age each passage gives and reconciles none of them.

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Evidence: 1 Chronicles 23:3–5

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Current wording: 1 Chronicles 23:3–5: the text says, “The Levites were counted from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.” David says, “Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of the LORD’s house, six thousand were officers and judges, four thousand were doorkeepers, and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made for giving praise.” The Korean Revised Version gives 23:4–5 as the text’s own words, with no speaker, and names the instruments 다윗의 찬송하기 위하여 지은 악기 (the instruments David made for praising).
Cited evidence: 1CH 23:3–5, engwebp
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