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The Divisions of the Levites

1 Chronicles 23:3

In 11 translations

BSB
The Levites thirty years of age or older were counted, and the total number of men was 38,000.
KJV
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.
WEB
The Levites were counted from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.
ASV
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.
LSV
and the Levites are numbered from a son of thirty years and upward, and their number, for their counted heads, is of thirty-eight thousand mighty men.
YLT
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.
DBY
And the Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward; and their number, by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.
DRC
And the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years, and upwards: and there were found of them thirty-eight thousand men.
GNV
And the Leuites were numbred from ye age of thirtie yeere and aboue, and their nomber according to their summe was eight and thirtie thousand men.
JPS
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.
LXXE
And the Levites numbered themselves from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls amounted to thirty and eight thousand men.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וַיִּסָּֽפְרוּ֙ הַלְוִיִּ֔ם מִבֶּ֛ן שְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים שָׁנָ֖ה וָמָ֑עְלָה וַיְהִ֨י מִסְפָּרָ֤ם לְגֻלְגְּלֹתָם֙ לִגְבָרִ֔ים שְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים וּשְׁמוֹנָ֖ה אָֽלֶף׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ ἠρίθμησαν οἱ Λευῖται ἀπὸ τριακονταετοῦς καὶ ἐπάνω, καὶ ἐγένετο ὁ ἀριθμὸς αὐτῶν κατὰ κεφαλὴν αὐτῶν εἰς ἄνδρας τριάκοντα καὶ ὀκτὼ χιλιάδας.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • 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.
  • Numbers 4:2–49“Take a census of the Kohathites among the Levites by their clans and families, men from thirty to fifty years old—everyone who is qualified to serve in the work at the Tent of Meeting. This service of the Kohathites…

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