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Numbers 8:23-25
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Numbers 8:23-25
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The Work of the Levites
23 Then the Lord spoke to Moses: 24 “This is what pertains to the Levites:[a] At the age of twenty-five years[b] and upward one may begin to join the company[c] in the work of the tent of meeting, 25 and at the age of fifty years they must retire from performing the work and may no longer work.
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- Numbers 8:24 tn Heb “this which to the Levites.” The meaning is “This is what concerns the Levites,” that is, the following rulings are for them.
- Numbers 8:24 tc The age of twenty-five indicated in v. 24 should be compared with the age of thirty indicated in Num 4:3, 23, 30. In order to harmonize the numbers given in chapter 4 with the number given in Num 8:24 the LXX (and perhaps its Hebrew Vorlage) has thirty in all of these references. See further G. J. Wenham, Numbers (TOTC 4), 97-98.
- Numbers 8:24 tn The infinitive is לִצְבֹא (litsvoʾ), related to the word for “host, army, company,” and so “to serve as a company.” The meaning is strengthened by the cognate accusative following it.
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