Everyone who is counted, from twenty years old and over, shall give the contribution 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.
- BSB Everyone twenty years of age or older who crosses over must give this offering to the LORD.
- NKJV Everyone included among those who are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering to the Lord.
- NLT All who have reached their twentieth birthday must give this sacred offering to the Lord.
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Quick answer
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).
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Cross-references · 6
- Num 1:20The children of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
- Num 1:18They assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their ancestry by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, one by one.
- Num 26:2“Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers’ houses, all who are able to go out to war in Israel.”
- Num 1:3from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall count them by their divisions.
- Num 32:11‘Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me,
- Num 14:29Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were counted of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me,
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The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.
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