Números 8:25

25 Mas desde los cincuenta años volverán de su ministerio en el ejército, y nunca más servirán

Números 8:25 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 8:25

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 ^F24, 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.

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FOOTNOTES:

F24 Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Cholin, c. 1. sect. 6.

Números 8:25 In-Context

23 Y habló el SEÑOR a Moisés, diciendo

24 Esto en cuanto a los levitas de veinticinco años arriba, entrarán a militar milicia en el servicio del tabernáculo del testimonio

25 Mas desde los cincuenta años volverán de su ministerio en el ejército, y nunca más servirán

26 pero servirán con sus hermanos en el tabernáculo del testimonio, para hacer la guardia. Así harás de los levitas en cuanto a su guarda