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The Levites were counted from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.
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Verse 3. Numbered at the same time, when David caused his son to be crowned, and made these fresh regulations, verse 27, and Calmet. 26:31.—Upwards, according to the plan given by Moses. David afterwards ordered people of twenty years of age, to begin to serve in the tabernacle, as it was now fixed, and consequently the labours were diminished. This tended to augment the splendour of the religious worship, and to edify the people, who could not attend so constantly, in person.
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