World English Bible

1 Chronicles 23:3

“The Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.”

Verse in context — 1 Chronicles 23

Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel.

He gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.

The Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.

David said, "Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of the house of Yahweh; six thousand were officers and judges;

four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised Yahweh with the instruments which I made, for giving praise.

Genealogies and David’s reign, emphasizing temple worship.