Thematic Bible: Age of


Thematic Bible



I was forty years old when Moses, the servant of the Lord, sent me from Kadesh-barnea to make a search through the land; and the account which I gave him was in keeping with his desire. My brothers, however, who went up with me, made the heart of the people like water: but I was true to the Lord with all my heart. And on that day Moses took an oath, saying, Truly the land where your feet have been placed will become a heritage for you and your children for ever, because you have been true to the Lord your God with all your heart. read more.
And now, as you see, the Lord has kept me safe these forty-five years, from the time when the Lord said this to Moses, while Israel was wandering in the waste land: and now I am eighty-five years old.

Now in the second year of their coming into the house of God in Jerusalem, in the second month, the work was taken in hand by Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come from the land where they were prisoners to Jerusalem: and they made the Levites, of twenty years old and over, responsible for overseeing the work of the house of the Lord. Verse ConceptsJudaismMaturity, PhysicalMiddle AgeTwentyAge Ranges Of Levites

All those from thirty to fifty years old who are able to do the work of the Tent of meeting. Verse ConceptsMiddle AgeServanthood, And Worship Of GodAge Ranges Of LevitesMaturity

Every one from thirty to fifty years old who is able to do the work of the Tent of meeting. Verse ConceptsMiddle AgeAge Ranges Of Levites

Those from thirty to fifty years old who were able to do the work of the Tent of meeting and of its transport, Verse ConceptsAge Ranges Of Levites

And the Lord said to Moses, This is the rule for the Levites: those of twenty-five years old and over are to go in and do the work of the Tent of meeting; But after they are fifty years old, they are to give up their work and do no more; read more.
But be with their brothers in the Tent of meeting, taking care of it but doing no work. This is what you are to do in connection with the Levites and their work.

And the Levites, all those of thirty years old and over, were numbered; and the number of them, by heads, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand. Verse ConceptsThirtyThirty Thousand And Up

These were the sons of Levi, grouped by families, the heads of the families of those who were numbered by name, by heads, all those of twenty years old and over who did the work of the house of the Lord. Verse ConceptsMaturity, PhysicalMiddle Age

So among the last acts of David was the numbering of the sons of Levi, from twenty years old and over. Verse ConceptsMiddle Age

All those from thirty to fifty years old who are able to do the work of the Tent of meeting. Verse ConceptsMiddle AgeServanthood, And Worship Of GodAge Ranges Of LevitesMaturity

Those from thirty to fifty years old who were able to do the work of the Tent of meeting and of its transport, Verse ConceptsAge Ranges Of Levites

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain