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1 Chronicles 23:3

The Levites thirty years old or more were counted; the total number of men was thirty-eight thousand by headcount.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Levites;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Levites, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Levite;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Golgotha;   Zacharias;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Levites;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Priests and Levites;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Poll;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Levites;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Age;   Poll;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.
King James Version
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.
English Standard Version
The Levites, thirty years old and upward, were numbered, and the total was 38,000 men.
New Century Version
He counted the Levites who were thirty years old and older. In all, there were thirty-eight thousand Levites.
New English Translation
The Levites who were thirty years old and up were counted; there were 38,000 men.
Amplified Bible
The Levites thirty years old and upward were counted, and their number man by man was 38,000.
New American Standard Bible
Now the Levites were counted from thirty years old and upward, and their number by head count of men was thirty-eight thousand.
World English Bible
The Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the Leuites were numbred from ye age of thirtie yeere and aboue, and their nomber according to their summe was eight & thirtie thousand men.
Legacy Standard Bible
And the Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward, and their number by census of men was 38,000.
Berean Standard Bible
The Levites thirty years of age and older were counted, and the total number of men was 38,000.
Contemporary English Version
He then counted the Levite men who were at least thirty years old, and the total was thirty-eight thousand.
Complete Jewish Bible
A census of L'vi'im thirty years old and over was taken, and their number came to 38,000.
Darby Translation
And the Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward; and their number, by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.
Easy-to-Read Version
David counted the Levites who were 30 years old and older. All together there were 38,000 Levites.
George Lamsa Translation
Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.
Good News Translation
He took a census of all the male Levites aged thirty or older. The total was thirty-eight thousand.
Lexham English Bible
And the Levites thirty years old and above were counted, and their number according to their head count for the men was thirty-eight thousand.
Literal Translation
And the Levites were counted from a son of thirty years and upward; and their number by their heads, as to men, thirty eight thousand.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
to nombre ye Leuites from thirtie yeare olde & aboue. And ye nombre of the (which were stroge men) fro heade to heade, was eight and thirtie thousande:
American Standard Version
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.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the Leuites were numbred from the age of thirtie yeres and aboue: and the number and summe of them was thirtie and eyght thousande men.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
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.
King James Version (1611)
Now the Leuites were numbred from the age of thirtie yeeres and vpward: and their number, by their polles, man by man, was thirtie and eight thousand.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Levites numbered themselves from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls amounted to thirty and eight thousand men.
English Revised Version
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.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and the dekenes weren noumbrid fro twenti yeer and aboue, and eiyte and thretti thousynde of men weren foundun.
Update Bible Version
And the Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward: and their number by their polls, the [able-bodied] men, was thirty and eight thousand.
Webster's Bible Translation
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.
New King James Version
Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and above; and the number of individual males was thirty-eight thousand.
New Living Translation
All the Levites who were thirty years old or older were counted, and the total came to 38,000.
New Life Bible
The Levites were numbered from thirty years old and older. Their number was 38,000.
New Revised Standard
The Levites, thirty years old and upward, were counted, and the total was thirty-eight thousand.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now the Levites were numbered, from thirty years old and upwards, - and their number by their polls, of mature men, was thirty-eight thousand.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years, and upwards: and there were found of them thirty-eight thousand men.
Revised Standard Version
The Levites, thirty years old and upward, were numbered, and the total was thirty-eight thousand men.
Young's Literal Translation
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.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward, and their number by census of men was 38,000.

Contextual Overview

1When David was old and full of days, he installed his son Solomon as king over Israel. 2Then he gathered all the leaders of Israel, the priests, and the Levites. 3The Levites thirty years old or more were counted; the total number of men was thirty-eight thousand by headcount. 4“Of these,” David said, “twenty-four thousand are to be in charge of the work on the Lord’s temple, six thousand are to be officers and judges, 5four thousand are to be gatekeepers, and four thousand are to praise the Lord with the instruments that I have made for worship.” 6Then David divided them into divisions according to Levi’s sons: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari. 7The Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei. 8Ladan’s sons: Jehiel was the first, then Zetham, and Joel—three. 9Shimei’s sons: Shelomoth, Haziel, and Haran—three. Those were the heads of the families of Ladan. 10Shimei’s sons: Jahath, Zizah, Jeush, and Beriah. Those were Shimei’s sons—four.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the Levites: Numbers 4:2, Numbers 4:3, Numbers 4:23, Numbers 4:30, Numbers 4:35, Numbers 4:43, Numbers 4:47

thirty and eight: Numbers 4:48

Reciprocal: Numbers 8:24 - from twenty 2 Samuel 7:5 - Shalt 2 Kings 11:5 - that enter 1 Chronicles 23:24 - twenty 1 Chronicles 23:27 - by the last 2 Chronicles 23:4 - entering Ezra 8:17 - ministers

Cross-References

Genesis 10:15
Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn and Heth,
Genesis 23:5
The Hethites replied to Abraham,
Genesis 23:7
Then Abraham rose and bowed down to the Hethites, the people of the land.
Genesis 25:10
This was the field that Abraham bought from the Hethites. Abraham was buried there with his wife Sarah.
Genesis 27:46
So Rebekah said to Isaac, “I’m sick of my life because of these Hethite girls. If Jacob marries someone from around here, like these Hethite girls, what good is my life?”
Genesis 49:30
The cave is in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, in the land of Canaan. This is the field Abraham purchased from Ephron the Hethite as burial property.
1 Samuel 26:6
Then David asked Ahimelech the Hethite and Joab’s brother Abishai son of Zeruiah, “Who will go with me into the camp to Saul?”
2 Samuel 23:39
and Uriah the Hethite.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years, and upward,.... So they were numbered in the days of Moses, and by his order, and so they were now at first; though afterwards there was a new reckoning of them, 1 Chronicles 23:24

and their number by their posts; or, according to their heads:

man by man, was thirty and eight thousand; which vastly exceeds the number in the times of Moses; see Numbers 4:47, but then those above fifty years of age were not numbered, as they now might; since their work in the temple would be much more easy, no burdens to carry, as the ark, the vessels, &c.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Chronicles 23:3. Thirty years and upward — The enumeration of the Levites made in the desert, Numbers 4:3, was from thirty years upwards to fifty years. In this place, the latter limit is not mentioned, probably because the service was not so laborious now; for the ark being fixed they had no longer any heavy burdens to carry, and therefore even an old man might continue to serve the tabernacle. David made another ordinance afterwards; see on 1 Chronicles 23:24; 1 Chronicles 23:27.


 
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