1 Chronicles 23:3

WEB

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

KJV

Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.

Commentary

Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years, and upward,.... 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, Ch1 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 Num 4:47 , 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, &c.