and from the age of fifty years they shall retire from doing the work, and shall serve no more,
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and from the age of fifty years they shall retire from doing the work, and shall serve no more,
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And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more:
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and from the age of fifty years they shall return from the service of the work, and shall serve no more;
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Passages linked to Numbers 8:25 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Numbers 4:23 you shall count them from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old: all who enter in to wait on the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.
- 2 Timothy 4:7 I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Such office as was painful, as to bear burdens…
Such office as was painful, as to bear burdens and such like.
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain i.e. Upon the difficult and cumbersome part of their…
i.e. Upon the difficult and cumbersome part of their work.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain But shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle…
But shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation,.... By giving advice, instructing younger Levites, and doing lighter service. Jarchi says, they shall return to shutting of doors, singing and loading wagons; but the last especially seems too burdensome: the ministry of such is explained by the next clause:
to keep the charge; of the tabernacle, to watch and observe that no stranger or unclean person enter into it; and this they were capable of when at the age of fifty, and upwards:
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and shall do no service; heavy and laborious:
thus thou shall do unto the Levites touching their charge; dismiss them from service when at such an age, or however make their service easier; for this respects ancient men, as Aben Ezra notes; though it may include both their entrance on their work, and their cessation from it.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Num 8:25-26. From the age of fifty — they…
Num 8:25-26. From the age of fifty — they shall cease waiting — Shall be excused from carrying the parts and vessels of the tabernacle, and all the toilsome duties of the service, and shall only give advice and direction, and assist in lesser and easier works. How merciful and full of compassion are the laws of God! When his servants became advanced in years in his service, they were not required to do the same work which they did when younger. But doubtless many of them, who were of age to take the benefit of this kind provision made for them, would show their love to God by still exerting in some way their last remains of strength in his service. And surely happy are they who, by the blessing of God on a temperate life, are preserved to old age, with strength to labour in His service who gave them being, and died to redeem them.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Serve, in any laborious functions, as the original imports.
Serve, in any laborious functions, as the original imports.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain from the age of fifty years they shall cease…
from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, &c.--that is, on the laborious and exhausting parts of their work.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 at the age of fifty years
at the age of fifty years
"at 50 years old" or "when they become 50 years old" (See: Numbers)
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tent of meeting
Levi
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