Numbers 8:24

What does Numbers 8:24 mean?

A plain-English look at Numbers 8:24 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

This is that which belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service in the work of the tent of meeting:

KJV

King James Version · 1611

This is it that belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation:

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

This is that which belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service in the work of the tent of meeting:

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

This is the rule for the Levites: those of twenty-five years old and over are to go in and do the work of the Tent of meeting;

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

`This <FI>is<Fi> that which <FI>is<Fi> the Levites': from a son of five and twenty years and upward he doth go in to serve the host in the service of the tent of meeting,

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

This is the law of the Levites: From twenty-five years old and upwards, they shall go in to minister in the tabernacle of the covenant.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

This is that which concerneth the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward shall he come to labour in the work of the service of the tent of meeting.

Context

v.23And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

v.24This passage

v.25and from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the work, and shall serve no more,

Cross references

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

  • 2 Timothy 2:3

    Suffer hardship with me, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

  • 1 Corinthians 9:7

    What soldier ever serveth at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?

  • 1 Timothy 1:18

    This charge I commit unto thee, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which led the way to thee, that by them thou mayest war the good warfare;

  • Numbers 4:3

    from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter upon the service, to do the work in the tent of meeting.

  • 2 Corinthians 10:4

    (for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds);

  • 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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