Everyone twenty years of age or older who crosses over must give this offering to the LORD.
Parallel translations
- WEB Everyone who passes over to those who are counted, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering to Yahweh.
- KJV Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the LORD.
- NKJV Everyone included among those who are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering to the Lord.
- NASB Everyone who is counted, from twenty years old and over, shall give the contribution to the Lord.
- NLT All who have reached their twentieth birthday must give this sacred offering to the Lord.
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All men twenty years old and older were to give the offering. Those of accountable, military age shared in the obligation of redemption.
Overview
The age of twenty marked those counted as adults responsible before God and able to serve. Their inclusion in the ransom showed that maturity brings accountability for one's standing before God. It reminds us that all who are of age stand in need of redemption, met fully in Christ (Romans 3:23-24).
Cross-references & the web
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- Num 1:20From the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, according to the records of their clans and families, counting one by one the names of every male twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,
- Num 1:18and on the first day of the second month they assembled the whole congregation and recorded their ancestry by clans and families, counting one by one the names of those twenty years of age or older,
- Num 26:2“Take a census of the whole congregation of Israel by the houses of their fathers—all those twenty years of age or older who can serve in the army of Israel.”
- Num 1:3You and Aaron are to number those who are twenty years of age or older by their divisions—everyone who can serve in Israel’s army.
- Num 32:11‘Because they did not follow Me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years of age or older who came out of Egypt will see the land that I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—
- Num 14:29Your bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me.
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