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Numbers 8:25

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and at the age of fifty years they must cease performing this work, and shall work no more.
Numbers 8:25 · New King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB and from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting on the work, and shall serve no more,
  • KJV And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more:
  • BSB But at the age of fifty, they must retire from performing the work and no longer serve.
  • NASB But at the age of fifty years they shall retire from service in the work and not work anymore.
  • NLT and they must retire at the age of fifty.

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Quick answer

At age fifty the Levites retired from their regular laboring service. God built rest and limits into their work.

Overview

God set an age at which the physically demanding work ceased, providing dignity and rest for aging servants. This care reflects God's wisdom in ordering human labor and His compassion toward those who have spent themselves in His service.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 2

  • 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.
  • 2 Tim 4:7I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

Themes, concepts, people & topics

Topics (1)
LEVITES

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  • ReferenceInterlinear, lexicon & Strong'sBlue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

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Christ at the center

In the wilderness Christ is the water from the rock, the bronze serpent lifted up that the dying might look and live (John 3:14), and the star and scepter that Balaam saw rising out of Jacob.

How Numbers 8:25 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

Original language

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And from the ageבֵּןof fiftyחֲמִשִּׁיםyearsשָׁנֶהthey shall ceaseשׁוּבwaitingצָבָאupon the serviceעֲבֹדָהthereof, and shall serveעָבַד
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