Numbers 4:3

The Kohathites eligible for tabernacle service were men aged thirty to fifty. This defined the seasoned, mature workforce that carried the sacred things.

Cross-references · 20

• Num 4:23from thirty to fifty years old, counting everyone who comes to serve in the work at the Tent of Meeting.
• 1 Chr 23:24–32These were the descendants of Levi by their families—the heads of families, registered individually by name—those twenty years of age or older who worked in the service of the house of the LORD.
• Eph 6:10–18Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power.
• 2 Kgs 11:4–12Then in the seventh year, Jehoiada sent for the commanders of hundreds, the Carites, and the guards, and had them brought into the house of the LORD. There he made a covenant with them and put them under oath. He showed them the king’s son
• Luke 3:23Jesus Himself was about thirty years old when He began His ministry. He was regarded as the son of Joseph, the son of Heli,
• Num 8:24–26“This applies to the Levites: Men twenty-five years of age or older shall enter to perform the service in the work at the Tent of Meeting.
• 1 Chr 23:3–5The Levites thirty years of age or older were counted, and the total number of men was 38,000.
• Num 4:30from thirty to fifty years old, counting everyone who comes to serve in the work of the Tent of Meeting.
• Num 4:35everyone from thirty to fifty years old who came to serve in the work at the Tent of Meeting.
• 2 Chr 23:1–11Then in the seventh year, Jehoiada strengthened himself and made a covenant with the commanders of hundreds—with Azariah son of Jeroham, Ishmael son of Jehohanan, Azariah son of Obed, Maaseiah son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat son of Zichri.
• Gen 41:46Now Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph left Pharaoh’s presence and traveled throughout the land of Egypt.
• Ezra 3:8In the second month of the second year after they had arrived at the house of God in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Jeshua son of Jozadak, and the rest of their associates including the priests, the Levites, and all who had returned to Jerusalem from the captivity, began the work. They appointed Levites twenty years of age or older to supervise the construction of the house of the LORD.
• 2 Cor 10:3–4For though we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh.
• 1 Chr 6:48Their fellow Levites were assigned to every kind of service of the tabernacle, the house of God.
• Num 3:7–8They are to perform duties for him and for the whole congregation before the Tent of Meeting, attending to the service of the tabernacle.
• 1 Tim 1:18Timothy, my child, I entrust you with this command in keeping with the previous prophecies about you, so that by them you may fight the good fight,
• 1 Tim 3:6He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same condemnation as the devil.
• 1 Chr 28:12–13The plans contained everything David had in mind for the courts of the house of the LORD, for all the surrounding rooms, for the treasuries of the house of God and of the dedicated things,
• Num 16:9Is it not enough for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel and brought you near to Himself to perform the work at the LORD’s tabernacle, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them?
• 1 Tim 3:1This is a trustworthy saying: If anyone aspires to be an overseer, he desires a noble task.

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