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Read Full Chapter (1 Chronicles 23) 1 Chronicles 23:3 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."
1 Chronicles 23:3 in Context (Verses 1–6 KJV)
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So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel.
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¶ And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.
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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.
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Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the LORD; and six thousand were officers and judges:*
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Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.
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And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.*