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Chapter 4

Delineation of Duties. The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, “Count the number of the Kohathites from among the sons of Levi by their clans and their families. Count all the men from thirty to fifty years old who go in to minister in the tent of meeting.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 4:3 This was the period during which the Levites served God in the temple of King David (see 1 Chr 23:3). The length of the period varies in different passages (see Num 8:24-25; Ezr 3:8). The institution certainly evolved.