³ from ^(A)thirty years and upward, even to fifty years old, all who enter the duty of doing the work in 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.