23 you shall count them from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old; all who enter in to wait on the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.
*Minor differences ignored. Grouped by changes, with first version listed as example.
enter in to perform the service - literally, as in the margin, "to war the warfare," or, as the same phrase in part is rendered, Numbers 4:3, "enter into the host to do the work." The language is military. The service of God is a sacred warfare (Numbers 8:24-25 marginal reading).
From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them; all that (n) enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.
(n) Which were received into the company of those who ministered in the tabernacle of the congregation.
From thirty years old and upward, until fifty years old,
shalt thou number them,.... Take an account how many there are of that age, and so fit for service (a); See Gill on Numbers 4:3,
to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation; as the rest of the Levites; see Numbers 4:3;
(a) "ad militandum militiam", Montanus, Drusius.
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