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1 Chronicles 23:24

1 Chronicles 23:24 is verse 24 of 1 Chronicles chapter 23, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

These were the descendants of Levi by their families—the heads of families, registered individually by name—those twenty years of age or older who worked in the service of the house of the LORD.

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King James Version

These were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from the age of twenty years and upward.

World English Bible

These were the sons of Levi after their fathers’ houses, even the heads of the fathers’ houses of those who were counted individually, in the number of names by their polls, who did the work for the service of Yahweh’s house, from twenty years old and upward.

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1 Chronicles 23:22–26 · Berean Standard Bible

22 Eleazar died without having any sons; he had only daughters. Their cousins, the sons of Kish, married them.

23 The sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jeremoth —three in all.

24 These were the descendants of Levi by their families—the heads of families, registered individually by name—those twenty years of age or older who worked in the service of the house of the LORD.

25 For David had said, “The LORD, the God of Israel, has given rest to His people and has come to dwell in Jerusalem forever.

26 So now the Levites no longer need to carry the tabernacle or any of the articles for its service.”

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Numbers 10:17

Then the tabernacle was taken down, and the Gershonites and the Merarites set out, transporting it.

Numbers 10:21

Then the Kohathites set out, transporting the holy objects; the tabernacle was to be set up before their arrival.

Numbers 1:4

And one man from each tribe, the head of each family, must be there with you.

Numbers 2:32

These are the Israelites, numbered according to their families. The total of those counted in the camps, by their divisions, was 603,550.

Numbers 3:15

“Number the Levites by their families and clans. You are to count every male a month old or more.”

Numbers 3:20

And the sons of Merari by their clans were Mahli and Mushi. These were the clans of the Levites, according to their families.

Numbers 4:34

So Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of the congregation numbered the Kohathites by their clans and families,

Numbers 4:35

everyone from thirty to fifty years old who came to serve in the work at the Tent of Meeting.

Numbers 4:36

And those numbered by their clans totaled 2,750.

Numbers 4:37

These were counted from the Kohathite clans, everyone who could serve at the Tent of Meeting. Moses and Aaron numbered them according to the command of the LORD through Moses.

Numbers 4:38

Then the Gershonites were numbered by their clans and families,

Numbers 4:39

everyone from thirty to fifty years old who came to serve in the work at the Tent of Meeting.

Numbers 4:40

And those numbered by their clans and families totaled 2,630.

Numbers 4:41

These were counted from the Gershonite clans who served at the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron counted at the LORD’s command.

Numbers 4:42

And the Merarites were numbered by their clans and families,

Numbers 4:43

everyone from thirty to fifty years old who came to serve in the work at the Tent of Meeting.

Numbers 4:44

The men registered by their clans numbered 3,200.

Numbers 4:45

These were counted from the Merarite clans, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the LORD’s command through Moses.

Numbers 4:46

So Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of Israel numbered by their clans and families all the Levites

Numbers 4:47

from thirty to fifty years old who came to do the work of serving and carrying the Tent of Meeting.

Numbers 4:48

And the number of men was 8,580.

Numbers 4:49

At the LORD’s command they were numbered through Moses and each one was assigned his work and burden, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Numbers 1:2

“Take a census of the whole congregation of Israel by their clans and families, listing every man by name, one by one.

Numbers 1:18

and on the first day of the second month they assembled the whole congregation and recorded their ancestry by clans and families, counting one by one the names of those twenty years of age or older,

Numbers 1:22

From the sons of Simeon, according to the records of their clans and families, counting one by one the names of every male twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

Numbers 3:47

you are to collect five shekels for each one, according to the sanctuary shekel of twenty gerahs.

1 Chronicles 23:3

The Levites thirty years of age or older were counted, and the total number of men was 38,000.

1 Chronicles 23:27

For according to the final instructions of David, the Levites twenty years of age or older were counted,

Numbers 1:3

You and Aaron are to number those who are twenty years of age or older by their divisions—everyone who can serve in Israel’s army.

Numbers 4:3

men from thirty to fifty years old—everyone who is qualified to serve in the work at the Tent of Meeting.

Numbers 8:24

“This applies to the Levites: Men twenty-five years of age or older shall enter to perform the service in the work at the Tent of Meeting.

Ezra 3:8

In the second month of the second year after they had arrived at the house of God in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Jeshua son of Jozadak, and the rest of their associates including the priests, the Levites, and all who had returned to Jerusalem from the captivity, began the work. They appointed Levites twenty years of age or older to supervise the construction of the house of the LORD.

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