1 Chronicles 23:3

What does 1 Chronicles 23:3 mean?

A plain-English look at 1 Chronicles 23:3 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

And the Levites, all those of thirty years old and over, were numbered; and the number of them, by heads, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

and the Levites are numbered from a son of thirty years and upward, and their number, by their polls, is of mighty men thirty and eight thousand.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

And the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years, and upwards: and there were found of them thirty-eight thousand men.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

And the Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward; and their number, by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.

Context

v.2And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.

v.3This passage

v.4Of these, twenty and four thousand were to oversee the work of the house of Jehovah; and six thousand were officers and judges;

Cross references

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

  • Numbers 4:2

    Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers’ houses,

  • 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.

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