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1 Chronicles 23:3

1 When David was old and full of years, he installed his son Solomon as king over Israel.

2 Then he gathered all the leaders of Israel, as well as the priests and Levites.

The Levites thirty years of age or older were counted, and the total number of men was 38,000.

4 “Of these,” said David, “24,000 are to oversee the work of the house of the LORD, 6,000 are to be officers and judges,

5 4,000 are to be gatekeepers, and 4,000 are to praise the LORD with the instruments I have made for giving praise.”

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BSB
The Levites thirty years of age or older were counted, and the total number of men was 38,000.
KJV
Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.
WEB
The Levites were counted from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.
ASV
And the Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.
DARBY
And the Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward; and their number, by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.
BLB
And the Levites were numbered from a son of thirty years and above, and the number by their heads of mighty men was thirty-eight thousand.
ÅB
Og levittene ble tellet fra tyveårsalderen og oppover, og tallet på dem - en for en, alle som var av mannkjønn - var åtte og tretti tusen.
OTB
Levittene ble talt fra tretti år og oppover,
og deres antall ved folketellingen av menn var trettiåtte tusen.
B1930
Og levittene blev tellet fra tyveårsalderen og opover, og tallet på dem - en for en, alle som var av mannkjønn - var åtte og tretti tusen.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • 1 Chronicles 23:24

    These were the descendants of Levi by their families—the heads of families, registered individually by name—those twenty years of age or older who worked in the service of the house of the LORD.

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  • Numbers 4:2–49

    “Take a census of the Kohathites among the Levites by their clans and families,

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