Scripture · Old Testament
1 Chronicles 23:3
1 Chronicles 23:3 is verse 3 of 1 Chronicles chapter 23, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
The Levites thirty years of age or older were counted, and the total number of men was 38,000.
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.
World English Bible
The Levites were counted from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.
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1 Chronicles 23:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible
1 When David was old and full of years, he installed his son Solomon as king over Israel.
2 Then he gathered all the leaders of Israel, as well as the priests and Levites.
3 The Levites thirty years of age or older were counted, and the total number of men was 38,000.
4 “Of these,” said David, “24,000 are to oversee the work of the house of the LORD, 6,000 are to be officers and judges,
5 4,000 are to be gatekeepers, and 4,000 are to praise the LORD with the instruments I have made for giving praise.”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Numbers 4:2“Take a census of the Kohathites among the Levites by their clans and families,
Numbers 4:3men from thirty to fifty years old—everyone who is qualified to serve in the work at the Tent of Meeting.
Numbers 4:23from thirty to fifty years old, counting everyone who comes to serve in the work at the Tent of Meeting.
Numbers 4:30from thirty to fifty years old, counting everyone who comes to serve in the work of the Tent of Meeting.
Numbers 4:35everyone from thirty to fifty years old who came to serve in the work at the Tent of Meeting.
Numbers 4:43everyone from thirty to fifty years old who came to serve in the work at the Tent of Meeting.
Numbers 4:47from thirty to fifty years old who came to do the work of serving and carrying the Tent of Meeting.
Numbers 4:48And the number of men was 8,580.