Translations
KJVPrimary
King James VersionNow the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.
F.O.G.Secondary
The F.O.GThe L'vi'im from thirty years old and upward were counted; their total number, polled man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.
F.O.G.M.
F.O.G MessageThe Levites thirty years of age and older were counted, and the total came to thirty-eight thousand.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleThe Levites thirty years of age or older were counted, and the total number of men was 38,000.
Footnotes
The age threshold of thirty matches the requirement for full tabernacle service in Numbers 4:3 — the work of physically transporting the sacred furniture demanded mature strength. Yet David lowers this threshold to twenty in v.24, since the heavy carrying work is now finished. The shift signals that Levitical service is being fundamentally reimagined for a settled, temple-based era.
