1 Cronache 23:3

3 E i Leviti furono annoverati dall’età di trent’anni in su. E il numero di essi, annoverati gli uomini a testa a testa, fu di trentottomila.

1 Cronache 23:3 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 23:3

Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years, and
upward
So they were numbered in the days of Moses, and by his order, and so they were now at first; though afterwards there was a new reckoning of them, ( 1 Chronicles 23:24 )

and their number by their posts;
or, according to their heads:

man by man, was thirty and eight thousand;
which vastly exceeds the number in the times of Moses; see ( Numbers 4:47 Numbers 4:48 ) , but then those above fifty years of age were not numbered, as they now might; since their work in the temple would be much more easy, no burdens to carry, as the ark, the vessels

1 Cronache 23:3 In-Context

1 DAVIDE adunque, essendo vecchio, e sazio di giorni, costituì Salomone, suo figliuolo, re sopra Israele.
2 E adunò tutti i capi d’Israele, e i sacerdoti, e i Leviti.
3 E i Leviti furono annoverati dall’età di trent’anni in su. E il numero di essi, annoverati gli uomini a testa a testa, fu di trentottomila.
4 D’infra essi ventiquattromila doveano vacare all’opera della Casa del Signore; e seimila doveano esser giudici ed ufficiali
5 e quattromila, portinai; ed altri quattromila doveano lodare il Signore con gli strumenti che io ho fatti, disse Davide, per lodarlo.
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