Bilangan 4:32

4:32 and the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their sockets, tent pegs, and ropes, along with all their furnishings and everything for their service. You are to assign by names the items that each man is responsible to carry. ¹ 

Bilangan 8:24

8:24 “This is what pertains to the Levites: ²  At the age of twenty-five years ³  and upward one may begin to join the company ⁴  in the work of the tent of meeting,

Bilangan 18:4

18:4 They must join ⁵  with you, and they will be responsible for the care of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the tent, but no unauthorized person ⁶  may approach you.

[4:32]  ¹ tn Heb “you shall assign by names the vessels of the responsibility of their burden.”

[8:24]  ² tn The Hebrew text has “this [is that] which [pertains] to the Levites.” “This is what concerns the Levites, meaning, the following rulings are for them.

[8:24]  ³ tc The age of twenty-five indicated in v. 24 should be compared with the age of thirty indicated in Num 4:3,23,30. In order to harmonize the numbers given in chapter 4 with the number given in Num 8:24 the LXX (and perhaps its Hebrew Vorlage) has thirty in all of these references. See further G. J. Wenham, Numbers (TOTC 4), 97-98.

[8:24]  ⁴ tn The infinitive is לִצְבֹא (litsvo’), related to the word for “host, army, company,” and so “to serve as a company.” The meaning is strengthened by the cognate accusative following it.

[18:4]  ⁵ tn Now the sentence uses the Niphal perfect with a vav (ו) consecutive from the same root לָוָה (lavah).

[18:4]  ⁶ tn The word is “stranger, alien,” but it can also mean Israelites here.