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1 Chronicleschapter 23

32 verses · Ezra, by tradition · 450 to 400 BC · History

Original Language

1 Chronicles 23— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition

In Jewish life

Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about 1 Chronicles 23. Three things follow: where it is read, what is done because of it, and how the rabbis have taught it. The purpose is to inform a Christian reader what Jews believe and how Judaism was and is practised.

Where the rabbis cite this chapter

2 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 2 verses of this chapter. No row that speaks to the chapter as a whole is recorded. Every quote links to its full source.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria (sefaria.org); excerpts follow each version’s license, and every passage opens at its source.

How to read a word below: the Hebrewword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, a widely used lookup this site follows (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Hebrew does not, angle brackets mark the Hebrew’s own grammatical elements that English renders as separate words, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.

1 Chronicles 23:27· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible

כִּ֣יkiforH3588בְדִבְרֵ֤יvedivreiby [the] words ofH1697דָוִיד֙davidDavidH1732הָאַ֣חֲרֹנִ֔יםhaacharonim<the> lastH314הֵ֖מָּהhemahtheyH1992מִסְפַּ֣רmispar[were] [the] number ofH4557בְּנֵי־benei-[the] descendants ofH1121לֵוִ֑יleviLeviH3878מִבֶּ֛ןmibenfrom a son ofH1121עֶשְׂרִ֥יםʾesrimtwentyH6242שָׁנָ֖הshanahyear[s]H8141וּלְמָֽעְלָה׃ulemaelahand <to> upwards <towards>H4605

Rashi on I Chronicles 23:27

RashiFrance, 1040–1105· Commentary
the sons of the Levites were numbered from twenty years old and upwards Then David established these watches, so that when Solomon his son would come, they would be prepared for him.

Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

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