At what age did God recruit The old test. priests for service ?
Interesting. I did not know that! Thanks!
When I asked the question, I thought it was age 30 when priests started,
I had to go look-up when the age 25 was mentioned: seems it lists both ages.
It gets confusing when everyone has [different Jobs] to do, for the [different area's].
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From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old
Numbers 4:3 , 35 the sons of Kohath
Numbers 4:23, 39 the sons of Gershon
Numbers 4:30, 43 the sons of Merari
Numbers 4:47 numbered of the Levites
46All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and
the chief of Israel numbered, after their families, and after the house of their fathers,
47From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that came to do the
service of the ministry, and the service of the burden in the tabernacle of the congregation,
I Chronicles 23:3 (NKJV)
Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and above;
and the number of individual males was thirty-eight thousand.
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twenty and five years old and upward
This is it that belongeth unto the Levites:
Numbers 8:24 (NKJV)
“This is what pertains to the Levites: From twenty-five years old and above
one may enter to perform service in the work of the tabernacle of meeting;
24This is it that belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward
they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation:
to…: Heb. to war the warfare of, etc.
25And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof,
and shall serve no more:cease…: Heb. return from the warfare of the service
26But shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation, to keep the
charge, and shall do no service. Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charge.