3 ^zfrom ^athirty years old up to fifty years old, all who can come on duty, to do the work in the tent of meeting.

3 The Levites, ^fthirty years old and upward, were numbered, and the total was 38,000 men.

24 These were the sons of Levi by their fathers’ houses, the heads of fathers’ houses as they were listed according to the number of the names of the individuals from twenty years old and upward who were to do the work for the service of the house of the Lord.

Rebuilding the Temple

8 Now in the second year after their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak made a beginning, together with the rest of their kinsmen, the priests and the Levites and all who had come to Jerusalem from the captivity. They appointed the Levites, ^jfrom twenty years old and upward, to supervise the work of the house of the Lord.