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1 Chronicles 23:27
1 Chronicles 23:27 is verse 27 of 1 Chronicles chapter 23, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
For according to the final instructions of David, the Levites twenty years of age or older were counted,
King James Version
For by the last words of David the Levites were numbered from twenty years old and above:
World English Bible
For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were counted, from twenty years old and upward.
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1 Chronicles 23:25–29 · Berean Standard Bible
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.”
27 For according to the final instructions of David, the Levites twenty years of age or older were counted,
28 but their duty was to assist the descendants of Aaron with the service of the house of the LORD, being responsible for the courts and chambers, the purification of all the holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God,
29 as well as for the rows of the showbread, the fine flour for the grain offering, the wafers of unleavened bread, the baking, the mixing, and all measurements of quantity and size.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
1 Chronicles 23:3The Levites thirty years of age or older were counted, and the total number of men was 38,000.
1 Chronicles 23:24These 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.
2 Samuel 23:1These are the last words of David: “The oracle of David son of Jesse, the oracle of the man raised on high, the one anointed by the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel:
Psalms 72:20Thus conclude the prayers of David son of Jesse.