Numbers 4:3 (WEB)
from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all who enter into the service to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.
Fathers and councils · 2
“And the laver in the tabernacle was cast from the mirrors of the women whofasted, signifying the bodies of pure virgins: And within,in the sanctuary, both cherubim, and mercy-seat, and the ark of the covenant, and the table of shew-bread, and the candle-stick, and the censer, were made of the purest gold.” — editor's note: Ex. xxxviii. 8. Sept. Vulg. “who watched;” Onkelos’ Targum “who assembled to pray,” and so the Syriac Version. The Hebrew word signifies “to go forth to war,”…
Read the whole comment“Let him call to mind the ancient law, and he will see that after his twenty-fifth year a Levite might be chosen to the priesthood; or if in this passage he prefers to follow the Hebrew he will find that candidates for the priesthood must be thirty years old.” — editor's note: Nu. iv. 3, LXX. A.V. follows the Hebrew.
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