Numbers 8:23-26
Expanded Bible
23 The Lord said to Moses, 24 “This command is for the Levites. Everyone twenty-five years old or older must come to the Meeting Tent, because they all have jobs to do there. 25 At the age of fifty, they must retire from their jobs and not work again. 26 They may ·help [serve; minister to] their fellow Levites with their work at the Meeting Tent, but they must not do the work themselves. This is the way you are to give the Levites their jobs.”
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Numbers 8:23-26
New American Standard Bible
Retirement for the Levites
23 Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 24 “This is what applies to the Levites: from (A)twenty-five years old and upward [a]they shall enter to perform service in the work of the tent of meeting. 25 But at the age of fifty years they shall [b]retire from service in the work and not work anymore. 26 They may, however, [c]assist their brothers in the tent of meeting, (B)to fulfill an obligation, but they themselves shall do no work. In this way you shall deal with the Levites in their obligations.”
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- Numbers 8:24 Lit he
- Numbers 8:25 Lit return
- Numbers 8:26 Lit serve
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