Numbers 4:23

23 Register men from 30 years old to 50 years old, everyone who is qualified to perform service, to do work at 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 ) ;


FOOTNOTES:

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

Numbers 4:23 In-Context

21 The Lord spoke to Moses:
22 "Take a census of the Gershonites also, by their ancestral houses and their clans.
23 Register men from 30 years old to 50 years old, everyone who is qualified to perform service, to do work at the tent of meeting.
24 This is the service of the Gershonite clans regarding work and transportation duties:
25 They are to transport the tabernacle curtains, the tent of meeting with its covering and the covering made of manatee skin on top of it, the screen for the entrance to the tent of meeting,
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