| I Chronicles 23:24
| These are the sons of Levi, in their kindreds and families, princes by their courses, and the number of every head that did the works of the ministry of the house of the Lord, from twenty years old and upwards.
| Old. See ver. 3., and Numbers 4:3. --- And upwards; as long as they were able to serve. They were excused from carrying the tabernacle, etc., at fifty years of age, Numbers 8:25. (Abulensis) (Menochius) --- To those who were turned of thirty, the higher offices were entrusted; while the Levites began at twenty, to exercise themselves in things of less consequence, under the direction of their elder brethren. (Tirinus) --- The kings might declare, by the advice of the Sanhedrim, what laws were of a temporary nature. (Grotius) (Du Hamel)
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