1 Chronicles 23:3

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

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

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BSBPD

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

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“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.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“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.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo 1 Chronicles 23:3 — 4 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Numbers 4:2“Take a census of the Kohathites among the Levites by their clans and families,
  2. Numbers 4:3men from thirty to fifty years old—everyone who is qualified to serve in the work at the Tent of Meeting.
  3. Numbers 4:46So Moses, Aaron, and the leaders of Israel numbered by their clans and families all the Levites
  4. 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.

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