²⁴ "This is that which belongs to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to wait on the service in the work of the Tent of Meeting;

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

³ from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all who enter into the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.

³ You therefore must endure hardship, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

⁴ No soldier on service entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

⁵ Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn't crowned unless he has competed by the rules.

¹² Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

¹⁸ This charge I commit to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which led the way to you, that by them you may wage the good warfare;

⁴ for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,

⁷ What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn't eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn't drink from the flock's milk?

¹² and the pattern of all that he had by the Spirit, for the courts of the house of Yahweh, and for all the surrounding rooms, for the treasuries of the house of God, and for the treasuries of the dedicated things;

¹³ also for the divisions of the priests and the Levites, and for all the work of the service of the house of Yahweh, and for all the vessels of service in the house of Yahweh;

²⁴ These were the sons of Levi after their fathers' houses, even the heads of the fathers' [houses] of those of those who were counted, in the number of names by their polls, who did the work for the service of the house of Yahweh, from twenty years old and upward.

²⁵ For David said, Yahweh, the God of Israel, has given rest to his people; and he dwells in Jerusalem forever:

²⁶ and also the Levites shall no more have need to carry the tent and all the vessels of it for the service of it.

²⁷ For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were numbered, from twenty years old and upward.

²³ from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shall you number them; all who enter in to wait on the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.