Numbers 4:47

47 from {those thirty years old} and above until {fifty years old}, everyone who comes to the service to do [the] work of the service carrying in the tent of assembly,

Numbers 4:47 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 4:47

From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old,
&c.] (See Gill on Numbers 4:34).

Numbers 4:47 In-Context

45 These [were] those counted of the clans of the descendants of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron mustered according to {the command} of Yahweh by the hand of Moses.
46 All those counted of the Levites whom Moses and Aaron and all the leaders of Israel mustered according to their clans, according to {their families},
47 from {those thirty years old} and above until {fifty years old}, everyone who comes to the service to do [the] work of the service carrying in the tent of assembly,
48 the {ones counted} were eighty thousand five hundred and eighty.
49 According to {the command} of Yahweh by the hand of Moses {they were mustered}, each man according to his service and according to their service and according to their burden; and so they were counted by him just as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Literally "a son of thirty years"
  • [b]. Literally "a son of fifty years"
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