Devine Scripture

1 Chronicles 23:27

1 Chronicles chapter 23 · verse 27 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were numbered, from twenty years old and upward.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

For by the last words of David the Levites were numbered from twenty years old and above:

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were numbered, from twenty years old and upward.

Context

v.26and also the Levites shall no more have need to carry the tabernacle and all the vessels of it for the service thereof.

v.27This passage

v.28For their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of Jehovah, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, even the work of the service of the house of God;

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 1 Chronicles 23:24

    These were the sons of Levi after their fathers’ houses, even the heads of the fathers’housesof those of them that were counted, in the number of names by their polls, who did the work for the service of the house of Jehovah, from twenty years old and upward.

  • 1 Chronicles 23:3

    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.

  • 2 Samuel 23:1

    Now these are the last words of David. David the son of Jesse saith, And the man who was raised on high saith, The anointed of the God of Jacob, And the sweet psalmist of Israel:

  • Psalms 72:20

    The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.