¹⁶ besides them that were reckoned by genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, even every one that entered into the house of Jehovah, as the duty of every day required, for their service in their offices according to their courses;

⁴ And they kept the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and `offered' the daily burnt-offerings by number, according to the ordinance, as the duty of every day required;

²² He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy:

²³ only he shall not go in unto the veil, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I am Jehovah who sanctifieth them.

³ And the Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.