Verse 3
(3) Now . . . and—i.e., after the council had agreed upon it.
The Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward.—A census like that which Moses instituted (Numbers 4:3; Numbers 4:23; Numbers 4:30, &c.), of all Levites “from thirty years old and upward unto fifty years,” for the work of the Tabernacle.
By their polls, man by man.—Lit., As to their skulls, as to men. The second phrase defines the first, and excludes women and children.
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