Mínshùjì 8:25

25 Dào le wǔ shí suì yào tíng gōng tuì rèn , bú zaì bàn shì ,

Mínshùjì 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.


FOOTNOTES:

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

Mínshùjì 8:25 In-Context

23 Yēhéhuá xiǎoyù Móxī shuō ,
24 Lìwèi rén shì zhèyàng , cóng èr shí wǔ suì yǐwaì , tāmen yào qián lái rén zhí , bàn huì mù de shì .
25 Dào le wǔ shí suì yào tíng gōng tuì rèn , bú zaì bàn shì ,
26 Zhǐyào zaì huì mù lǐ , hé tāmende dìxiōng yītóng cìhou , jǐn shǒu suǒ fēnfu de , bú zaì bàn shì le . zhìyú suǒ fēnfu Lìwèi rén de , nǐ yào zhèyàng xiàng tāmen xíng .
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