And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more:
KJV
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4 additional translationsASV
and from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the work, and shall serve no more,
WEB
But at the age of fifty, they must retire from performing the work and no longer serve.
YLT
and from a son of fifty years he doth return from the host of the service, and doth not serve any more,
DBT
And from fifty years old he shall retire from the labour of the service, and shall serve no more;
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentNumbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.
- Author
- Moses — the wilderness narrator; ‘Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys’ (33:2)
- Date
- The wilderness years, c. 15th–13th century BC