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).
Related Commentaries of Numbers 4:23
Numbers 4:23
23 From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them; all that enter in to performc the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.