Numbers - 4:23



23 you shall count them from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old; all who enter in to wait on the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.

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Explanation and meaning of Numbers 4:23.

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From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them; all that enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.
from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them; all that enter in to wait upon the service, to do the work in the tent of meeting.
From thirty Sears old and upward, unto fifty years old. Number them all that go in and minister in the tabernacle of the covenant.
From thirty years old and upward to fifty years old shalt thou number them; every one that cometh to labour in the work, to perform the service in the tent of meeting.
from a son of thirty years and upward, till a son of fifty years thou dost number them, every one who is going in to serve the host, to do the service in the tent of meeting.
All those from thirty to fifty years old who are able to do the work of the Tent of meeting.
from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them: all that enter in to wait upon the service, to do service in the tent of meeting.
from thirty years and above, even to fifty years. Number all those who enter and minister in the tabernacle of the covenant.
Ab eo qui natus est triginta annos et supra, usque ad eum qui est quinquaginta annorum, numerabis eos: quotquot ingrediuntur congregationem, ut faciant opus in tabernaculo conventionis.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

enter in to perform the service - literally, as in the margin, "to war the warfare," or, as the same phrase in part is rendered, Numbers 4:3, "enter into the host to do the work." The language is military. The service of God is a sacred warfare (Numbers 8:24-25 marginal reading).

From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them; all that (n) enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.
(n) Which were received into the company of those who ministered in the tabernacle of the congregation.

From thirty years old and upward, until fifty years old,
shalt thou number them,.... Take an account how many there are of that age, and so fit for service (a); See Gill on Numbers 4:3,
to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation; as the rest of the Levites; see Numbers 4:3;
(a) "ad militandum militiam", Montanus, Drusius.

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