Retirement for Levites
Numbers 8:25
In 11 translations
- BSB
- But at the age of fifty, they must retire from performing the work and no longer serve.
- KJV
- And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more:cease…: Heb. return from the warfare of the service
- WEB
- and from the age of fifty years they shall retire from doing the work, and shall serve no more,
- ASV
- and from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the work, and shall serve no more,
- LSV
- and from a son of fifty years he returns from the host of the service, and does not serve anymore,
- YLT
- and from a son of fifty years he doth return from the host of the service, and doth not serve any more,
- DBY
- And from fifty years old he shall retire from the labour of the service, and shall serve no more;
- DRC
- And when they shall have accomplished the fiftieth year of their age, they shall cease to serve:
- GNV
- And after the age of fiftie yeere, they shall cease from executing the office, and shall serue no more:
- JPS
- and from the age of fifty years they shall return from the service of the work, and shall serve no more;
- LXXE
- And from fifty years old the Levite shall cease from the ministry, and shall not work any longer.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- וּמִבֶּן֙ חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים שָׁנָ֔ה יָשׁ֖וּב מִצְּבָ֣א הָעֲבֹדָ֑ה וְלֹ֥א יַעֲבֹ֖ד עֽוֹד׃
- LXX-Br
- Καὶ ἀπὸ πεντηκονταετοῦς ἀποστήσεται ἀπὸ τῆς λειτουργίας, καὶ οὐκ ἐργᾶται ἔτι.
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Cross-references most cited first
- Numbers 4:23from thirty to fifty years old, counting everyone who comes to serve in the work at the Tent of Meeting.
- 2 Timothy 4:7I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
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