Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageThe priests were enrolled by genealogy according to their ancestral households, and the Levites were registered from twenty years old and upward, by their duties and divisions.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.Gand the kohanim enrolled by genealogy according to their fathers' houses, and the Levi'im from twenty years old and upward, according to their duties in their divisions —
KJV
King James VersionBoth to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their charges by their courses;
BSB
Berean Standard Bibleand to the priests enrolled according to their families in the genealogy, as well as to the Levites twenty years of age or older, according to their responsibilities and divisions.
Footnotes
The Levitical service threshold of twenty years (*miben esrim shanah*) reflects a development from the Mosaic standard of thirty years (Num. 4:3), adjusted by David in 1 Chronicles 23:24-27 in view of the permanent temple replacing the portable tabernacle. The Chronicler records this not as contradiction but as legitimate covenant development: the settled house of YHWH required different deployment than the wilderness tent. The shift also considerably expanded the Levitical workforce for temple service.
