Numbers 4:30

30 from {those thirty years old} and above until {fifty years old}; you will muster them, all who come to do the work of the tent of assembly.

Numbers 4:30 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 4:30

From thirty years old and upward
The Septuagint version here, and in ( Numbers 4:3 Numbers 4:23 ) , renders it, from twenty five years old and upward, agreeable to ( Numbers 8:24 ) , at the which age the Levites went into the tabernacle, to wait and to learn their business, but they did not enter upon it till thirty;

even unto fifty years old shalt thou number them;
at which age they were discharged from business:

everyone that entereth into the service, to do the work of the
tabernacle of the congregation; (See Gill on Numbers 4:3).

Numbers 4:30 In-Context

28 This [is] the work of the clan of the descendants of the Gershonites in the tent of assembly, and their responsibility [lies] {under the direction} of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.

29 "[For] the descendants of Merari according to their clans, according to {their families}, you will muster them;

30 from {those thirty years old} and above until {fifty years old}; you will muster them, all who come to do the work of the tent of assembly.

31 And this [is] the responsibility of {those who are to carry}, all their work in the tent of assembly: the frames of the tabernacle and its bars, pillars, and bases,

32 and the pillars of the courtyard all around, and their bases, pegs, and cords, with all their vessels and for all their work. You will appoint by name the vessels that they [are] responsible to carry.

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "a son of thirty years"
• [b]. Literally "a son of fifty years"
• [c]. Or "count," or "summon," or "enroll"