Num 8:23-26 | TNotes | STEP | Summary for Num 8:23-26: 8:23-26 Guidelines regarding the Levites’ length of service. • Whereas 4:3 states that their Tabernacle service began at age 30, 8:24 gives the age as 25. The discrepancy might reflect age requirements followed in different periods when the number of Levite men available for service varied, or those aged 25–29 may have been considered unofficial workers or apprentices. • Both passages establish the retirement age at 50; retired Levites could serve the Tabernacle as guards (cp. Ps 84:10 ).

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‏ Numbers 8:23-26

Summary for Num 8:23-26: 8:23-26 ^a Guidelines regarding the Levites’ length of service.

• Whereas 4:3 ^b states that their Tabernacle service began at age 30, 8:24 ^c gives the age as 25. The discrepancy might reflect age requirements followed in different periods when the number of Levite men available for service varied, or those aged 25–29 may have been considered unofficial workers or apprentices.

• Both passages establish the retirement age at 50; retired Levites could serve the Tabernacle as guards (cp. Ps 84:10 ^d).