1 Chronicles 23:3
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New International Version (©1984)
The Levites thirty years old or more were counted, and the total number of men was thirty-eight thousand.

New Living Translation (©2007)
All the Levites who were thirty years old or older were counted, and the total came to 38,000.

English Standard Version (©2001)
The Levites, thirty years old and upward, were numbered, and the total was 38,000 men.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
The Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward, and their number by census of men was 38,000.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Every male Levite who was at least 30 years old was counted. There were 38,000.

King James Bible
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.

American King James Version
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.

American Standard Version
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.

Bible in Basic English
And the Levites, all those of thirty years old and over, were numbered; and the number of them, by heads, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years, and upwards: and there were found of them thirty-eight thousand men.

Darby Bible Translation
And the Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward; and their number, by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.

English Revised Version
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

World English Bible
The Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.

Young's Literal Translation
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.

Geneva Study Bible

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.

Wesley's Notes

23:3 Upwards - Not only 'till fifty, as it was appointed, Numb 4:2,3, but even 'till their death: for that was but a temporary law grounded upon a special reason, because the Levites were employed in carrying the tabernacle and sacred vessels from place to place; and therefore God would have them freed from those burdens when they came to feel the infirmities of age: which reason wholly ceasing upon the building of the temple, their work being far easier than it had been, and their service being more a privilege than a burden, their time of service is justly prolonged.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

3. the Levites were numbered . thirty and eight thousand-Four times their number at the early census taken by Moses (see on [397]Nu 4:1-49; [398]26:1-51). It was, in all likelihood, this vast increase that suggested and rendered expedient that classification, made in the last year of David's reign, which the present and three subsequent chapters describe.

by their polls, man by man-Women and children were not included.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

23:1-23 David, having given charge concerning the building of the temple, settles the method of the temple service, and orders the officers of it. When those of the same family were employed together, it would engage them to love and assist one another.


Numbers 4:3 from thirty years and upward, even to fifty years old, all who enter the service to do the work in the tent of meeting.
Numbers 4:48 Their numbered men were 8,580.
1 Chronicles 23:24 These were the sons of Levi according to their fathers' households, even the heads of the fathers' households of those of them who were counted, in the number of names by their census, doing the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from twenty years old and upward. (NASB ©1995)

Age Census Counted Eight Heads Levites Mighty Numbered Polls Thirty Thirty-Eight Thousand Total Upward


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.

the Levites Nu 4:2,3,23,30,35,43,47

thirty and eight Nu 4:48

Bible Gateway: 1 Chronicles Chapter 23 Verse 3 NIV ESV NKJV NLT KJV Message Amplified

Alphabetical: and by census counted from Levites men more number numbered of old or The their thirty thirty-eight thousand total upward was were years

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