SEV Biblia, Chapter 23:3
fueron contados los levitas de treinta años arriba; y fue el número de ellos por sus cabezas, contados por varones, treinta y ocho mil.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 Chronicles 23:3
Verse 3. Thirty years and upward] The enumeration of the Levites made in the desert, Num. iv. 3, was from thirty years upwards to fifty years. In this place, the latter limit is not mentioned, probably because the service was not so labourious now; for the ark being fixed they had no longer any heavy burdens to carry, and therefore even an old man might continue to serve the tabernacle. David made another ordinance afterwards; see on ver. 24, 27.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 3. Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years, and upward , etc.] So they were numbered in the days of Moses, and by his order, and so they were now at first; though afterwards there was a new reckoning of them, ( 1 Chronicles 23:24) and their number by their posts ; or, according to their heads: man by man, was thirty and eight thousand ; which vastly exceeds the number in the times of Moses; (see Numbers 4:47,48), but then those above fifty years of age were not numbered, as they now might; since their work in the temple would be much more easy, no burdens to carry, as the ark, the vessels, etc.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-23 - David, having given charge concerning the building of the temple settles the method of the temple service, and orders the officers of it. When those of the same family were employed together, it woul engage them to love and assist one another.
Original Hebrew
ויספרו 5608 הלוים 3881 מבן 1121 שׁלשׁים 7970 שׁנה 8141 ומעלה 4605 ויהי 1961 מספרם 4557 לגלגלתם 1538 לגברים 1397 שׁלשׁים 7970 ושׁמונה 8083 אלף׃ 505
