Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Both 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;

Bible References

Genealogy

Numbers 3:15
Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shall you number them.
Numbers 4:38
And those that were numbered of the sons of Gershon, throughout their families, and by the house of their fathers,
Numbers 17:2
Speak unto the children of Israel, and take of every one of them a rod according to the house of their fathers, of all their leaders according to the house of their fathers twelve rods: write every man's name upon his rod.
Ezra 2:59
And these were they who went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harhsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not prove their father's house, and their descent, whether they were of Israel:

Twenty

Numbers 4:3
From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of meeting.
Numbers 8:24
This is what pertains to the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of meeting:
1 Chronicles 23:24
These were the sons of Levi by their fathers' houses; even the heads of their fathers' houses, as they were counted individually by the number of their names, that did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from the age of twenty years and upward.

By their courses

2 Chronicles 31:2
And Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and the Levites according to their divisions, every man according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the camp of the LORD.
1 Chronicles 24:20
And the rest of the sons of Levi were these: Of the sons of Amram; Shubael: of the sons of Shubael; Jehdeiah.