3 Now 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.

Other Translations of 1 Chronicles 23:3

New International Version

3 The Levites thirty years old or more were counted, and the total number of men was thirty-eight thousand.

English Standard Version

3 The Levites, thirty years old and upward, were numbered, and the total was 38,000 men.

The Message

3 The Levites thirty years and older were counted; the total was 38,000.

New King James Version

3 Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and above; and the number of individual males was thirty-eight thousand.

New Living Translation

3 All the Levites who were thirty years old or older were counted, and the total came to 38,000.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on 1 Chronicles 23:3

Commentary on 1 Chronicles 23:1-23

(Read 1 Chronicles 23:1-23)

David, having given charge concerning the building of the temple, settles the method of the temple service, and orders the officers of it. When those of the same family were employed together, it would engage them to love and assist one another.