Numeri 8:24

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

Dit geldt van de Levieten: van vijf en twintig jaar af en daarboven zal hij komen om zijn plicht te vervullen bij het dienstwerk aan de tent der samenkomst;

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
Dit is het wat den Levieten betaamt: van vijf en twintig jaar en daarboven zijn zij bekwaam tot het ambt en den dienst in de tent der samenkomst.

Staten Vertaling
Dit is het, wat de Levieten aangaat: van vijf en twintig jaren oud en daarboven, zullen zij inkomen, om den strijd te strijden, in den dienst van de tent der samenkomst.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

from twenty: In Numbers 4:3, the Levites are appointed to the service of the tabernacle at the age of 30 years; and in 1 Chronicles 23:24, they are ordered to commence their work at 20 years of age. In order to reconcile this apparent discrepancy, it is to be observed:

1. At the time of which Moses speaks in Numbers 4:3, the Levitical service was exceedingly severe, and consequently required full grown, robust men, to perform it; the age of 30 was therefore appointed as the period for commencing this service, the weightier part of which was probably there intended.

2. In this place God seems to speak of the service in a general way: hence the age of 25 is fixed.

3. In David's time, and afterwards, in the fixed tabernacle and temple, the laboriousness of the service no longer existed, and hence 20 years was the age appointed. Numbers 4:3, Numbers 4:23, 1 Chronicles 23:3, 1 Chronicles 23:24-27, 1 Chronicles 28:12, 1 Chronicles 28:13

wait upon: Heb. war the warfare of, etc. 1 Corinthians 9:7, 2 Corinthians 10:4, 1 Timothy 1:18, 1 Timothy 6:12, 2 Timothy 2:3-5

Reciprocal: Numbers 1:53 - and the Numbers 3:7 - to do the Numbers 4:35 - General 1 Chronicles 15:2 - to minister 2 Chronicles 31:17 - twenty Nehemiah 12:44 - Judah rejoiced

Gill's Notes on the Bible

This [is it] that [belongeth] unto the Levites,.... The fixed and settled time for their service, as is after related:

from twenty and five years old and upward, they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; in Numbers 4:3; the time for the Levites entering on the work of the tabernacle is fixed to thirty years and upward, which Jarchi reconciles thus; at twenty five years old the Levite goes in to learn the rites of service, and he learns five years, and when thirty years of age he services; the same is observed by others w; but what Aben Ezra proposes seems much better; at thirty years of age a Levite entered into the service of bearing and carrying burdens; and at twenty five years of age he entered into the service of the tent or tabernacle, where he was employed in lighter service, such as opening and shutting the doors of the sanctuary, keeping out strangers and unclean persons, and singing the songs of the sanctuary; but was not concerned till thirty years of age in carrying the vessels of the sanctuary on the shoulders, as the Kohathites; or in taking down and setting up the tabernacle, loading and unloading the wagons, as the Gershonites and Merarites; which is the business assigned unto them, and spoken of in Numbers 4:22, where the age of thirty years, and upward, is mentioned, as the time of their entrance on it, Numbers 4:23.

w Ben Gersom in loc. Bartenora in Pirke Abot, c. 5. sect. 21.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Twenty and five years old and upward - The permanent limit as distinguished from the temporary Numbers 4:3, Numbers 4:23, Numbers 4:30, though David found it necessary to extend the period of the Levites’ service by causing it to commence at 20 years of age 1 Chronicles 23:24-28. This rule continued in force from the time of David downward (compare on 2 Chronicles 31:17; Ezra 3:8).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 8:24. From twenty and five years old — Numbers 4:3, where the two terms of twenty-five and thirty years are reconciled.