Numbers 4:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

thirty. This thirty pertains to their numbering, The age twenty-five pertains to their service. So that there was. probationary live years. Changed (by Divine direction given to David) in 1 Chronicles 23:23; 1 Chronicles 23:24; 1 Chronicles 23:27 to twenty. Compare 2 Chronicles 31:17.

all that enter into the host. This expression occurs five times in this chapter, verses: Numbers 4:3; Numbers 4:30; Numbers 4:35; Numbers 3:39; Numbers 3:43.

tabernacle of the congregation. "tent of meeting". Hebrew. 'ohel. See App-40.

Numbers 4:3

3 From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.