Numbers 8:24

Translations

Modern

“This applies to the Levites: Men twenty-five years of age or older shall enter to perform the service in the work at the Tent of Meeting.

Traditional

This is it that belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation:

Literal

“This is what is unto the Levites: From a son of five and twenty years and above, one may enter to perform the service in the work of the Tent of Meeting.

Latin

Hæc est lex Levitarum: a viginti quinque annis et supra, ingredientur ut ministrent in tabernaculo fœderis.

Original

Hebrew

English

“This applies to the Levites: Men twenty-five years of age or older shall enter to perform the service in the work at the Tent of Meeting.

Notes

Numbers 8:23–26

These are guidelines for the length of the Levites' service.
Whereas 4:3 says their service in the Tent of Meeting started at age 30, 8:24 says age 25. This difference might show changes in age requirements over time, depending on how many Levite men were available. Those aged 25–29 might have been unofficial workers or apprentices.
Both passages set the retirement age at 50. Retired Levites could serve as guards of the Tent of Meeting (see Psalm 84:10).

Related verses

Numbers 4:3
…men from thirty to fifty years old—everyone who is qualified to serve in the work at the Tent of Meeting.
1 Chronicles 23:3
The Levites thirty years of age or older were counted, and the total number of men was 38,000.
Numbers 4:23
…from thirty to fifty years old, counting everyone who comes to serve in the work at the Tent of Meeting.
1 Corinthians 9:7
Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not drink of its milk?
1 Chronicles 28:12–13
The plans contained everything David had in mind for the courts of the house of the LORD, for all the surrounding rooms, for the treasuries of the house of God and of the dedicated things,
1 Chronicles 23:24–27
These 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.
2 Timothy 2:3–5
Join me in suffering, like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
2 Corinthians 10:4
The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the flesh. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
1 Timothy 1:18
Timothy, my child, I entrust you with this command in keeping with the previous prophecies about you, so that by them you may fight the good fight,
1 Timothy 6:12
Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made the good confession before many witnesses.

People

Levi: Son of Jacob; progenitor of the Levites

Glossary

Biblical Concept of Law Cattle Deuteronomy, Book of God, Names of Numbers, Book of Priests and Levites

Topics

Levites: Age of when Inducted Into office Tabernacle: The Levites: Appointed Over, and had Charge of The Levites: Entered on Their Service at Twenty-Five Years of Age

Numbers 8:24

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