²³ from ^(A)thirty years and upward to fifty years old, you shall ^[a]number them; all who enter to perform the duty of performing the service in the tent of meeting.

³⁰ from ^(A)thirty years and upward even to fifty years old, you shall number them, everyone who enters the duty of performing the service of the tent of meeting.

³⁵ from ^(A)thirty years and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered the duty of service in the tent of meeting.

²⁴ “This is what applies to the Levites: from ^(A)twenty-five years old and upward ^[a]they shall enter to perform their duty in the service of the tent of meeting.

The Work of the Levites

^3 (A)And the Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward, and ^(B)their number by ^[a]census of men was 38,000.

The Service of the Levites

^24 (A)These were the sons of Levi according to their fathers’ households, even the heads of the fathers’ households of those of them who were ^[a]counted, in the number of names by their ^[b]census, doing the work for the service of the house of Yahweh, ^(B)from twenty years old and upward.

²⁷ For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were numbered from twenty years old and upward.

The Foundation of the Temple of Yahweh

⁸ Now in the second year of their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem in the second month, ^(A)Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all who came from the captivity to Jerusalem, began the work and ^(B)appointed the Levites from twenty years and older to direct the work of the house of Yahweh.