Numbers 4:23

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

Numbers 4:23 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 4:23

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 ^F1; (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 ) ;

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 (abu abul) "ad militandum militiam", Montanus, Drusius.

Numbers 4:23 In-Context

21 The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying,

22 "Take a census of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers' houses, by their families;

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

24 This is the service of the families of the Gershoni, in serving and in bearing burdens:

25 they shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle, and the Tent of Meeting, its covering, and the covering of sealskin that is above on it, and the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting,