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.

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• Num 4:23you 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.
• 1 Chr 23:24–32These were the sons of Levi after their fathers’ houses, even the heads of the fathers’ houses of those who were counted individually, in the number of names by their polls, who did the work for the service of Yahweh’s house, from twenty years old and upward.
• Eph 6:10–18Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.
• 2 Kgs 11:4–12In the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains over hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him into Yahweh’s house; and he made a covenant with them, and made a covenant with them in Yahweh’s house, and showed them the king’s son.
• Luke 3:23Jesus himself, when he began to teach, was about thirty years old, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,
• Num 8:24–26“This is that which belongs to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to wait on the service in the work of the Tent of Meeting;
• 1 Chr 23:3–5The Levites were counted from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.
• Num 4:30you shall count them from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who enters on the service, to do the work of the Tent of Meeting.
• Num 4:35from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service, for work in the Tent of Meeting.
• 2 Chr 23:1–11In the seventh year, Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, Azariah the son of Obed, Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into a covenant with him.
• Gen 41:46Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
• Ezra 3:8Now in the second year of their coming to God’s house at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come out of the captivity to Jerusalem, began the work and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of Yahweh’s house.
• 2 Cor 10:3–4For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh;
• 1 Chr 6:48Their brothers the Levites were appointed for all the service of the tabernacle of God’s house.
• Num 3:7–8They shall keep his requirements, and the requirements of the whole congregation before the Tent of Meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle.
• 1 Tim 1:18This instruction I commit to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which led the way to you, that by them you may wage the good warfare;
• 1 Tim 3:6not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.
• 1 Chr 28:12–13and the plans of all that he had by the Spirit, for the courts of Yahweh’s house, for all the surrounding rooms, for the treasuries of God’s house, and for the treasuries of the dedicated things;
• Num 16:9Is it a small thing to you, that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do the service of Yahweh’s tabernacle, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them;
• 1 Tim 3:1This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work.

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