Numeri 3:28

28 I quali, contati tutti i maschi, dall’età d’un mese in su, furono ottomila seicento, che facevano la fazione del Santuario.

Numeri 3:28 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 3:28

In the number of all the males, from a month old and upwards,
[were] eight thousand and six hundred
8,600 men, which was the largest number of any of the houses of the Levites; but considering it had double the number of families in it, the increase was not so large in proportion, at least to Gershon, whose two families wanted but 1,100 of these four:

keeping the charge of the sanctuary;
of the holy and most holy places, and the vessels and instruments belonging thereunto; not that the males of a month old were keeping them, but when they were grown up and were capable of it, they had the charge thereof, in which they were instructed and trained up from their youth.

Numeri 3:28 In-Context

26 e le cortine del Cortile, insieme col Tappeto dell’entrata del Cortile, d’intorno al Padiglione e all’Altare, e le sue corde, per tutti i suoi servigi.

27 E di Chehat fu la nazione degli Amramiti, e la nazione degl’Ishariti, e la nazione degli Hebroniti, e la nazione degli Uzzieliti. Queste sono le nazioni de’ Chehatiti.

28 I quali, contati tutti i maschi, dall’età d’un mese in su, furono ottomila seicento, che facevano la fazione del Santuario.

29 Le nazioni de’ figliuoli di Chehat doveano accamparsi allato al Tabernacolo verso il Mezzodì.

30 E il capo delle famiglie paterne delle nazioni de’ Chehatiti fu Elisafan, figliuolo d’Uzziel.