And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more:

And when they shall have accomplished the fiftieth year of their age, they shall cease to serve:

And from fifty years old he shall retire from the labour of the service, and shall serve no more;

and from a son of fifty years he doth return from the host of the service, and doth not serve any more,

But after they are fifty years old, they are to give up their work and do no more;

and from the age of fifty years they shall return from the service of the work, and shall serve no more;

And when they will have completed the fiftieth year of age, they shall cease to serve.

A quinquagesimo autem anno revertetur a militia cultus, nec ministrabit ultra:

And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the (k) service [thereof], and shall serve no more:
(k) Such office as was painful, as to bear burdens and such like.

And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof,.... The heavy service of it:
and shall serve no more; by bearing and carrying the vessels of the sanctuary upon their shoulders, as Jarchi interprets it; this, according to the Jewish writers, was only in force while the tabernacle was in the wilderness, and was moved from place to place: but when it had a fixed habitation, and that laborious service of bearing and carrying the vessels of it ceased, years made no difference in the Levites, or disqualified them for service; for it is said (x), that the Levites were not bound by this law, but in the time of the tabernacle; but when it was at Shiloh, and at Jerusalem, where there was no bearing and carrying upon the shoulder, the Levites were not rejected on account of years, only for their voice, when they had lost that, and could not sing.
(x) Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Cholin, c. 1. sect. 6.

from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, &c.--that is, on the laborious and exhausting parts of their work.