Numbers 8:25 BSB — MannaFest

Numbers 8:25

But at the age of fifty, they must retire from performing the work and no longer serve.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

and from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the work, and shall serve no more,

KJV

And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more:

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Commentary

1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

If God's grace provide that men shall have ability according to their work, man's prudence should take care that men have work only according to their ability. The aged are most fit for trusts, and to keep the charge; the younger are most fit for work, and to do the service.

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּמִבֶּן֙	u.mi.Ben	and from a son of	H1121 →
חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים	cha.mi.Shim	fifty	H2572 →
שָׁנָ֔ה	sha.Nah	year[s]	H8141 →
יָשׁ֖וּב	ya.Shuv	he will turn back	H7725 →
מִצְּבָ֣א	mi.tze.Va'	from [the] service of	H6635 →
הָעֲבֹדָ֑ה	ha.'a.vo.Dah	the service	H5656 →
וְלֹ֥א	ve.Lo'	and not	H3808 →
יַעֲבֹ֖ד	ya.'a.Vod	he will serve	H5647 →
עֽוֹד׃	od	again	H5750 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 Timothy 4:7
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
leads to
- 1 Timothy 6:12
  Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made the good confession before many witnesses.
- 1 Corinthians 9:24–27
  Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize.
- Hebrews 12:1–2
  Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set…
- Acts 20:24
  But I consider my life of no value to me, if only I may finish my course and complete the ministry I have received from the Lord Jesus—the ministry of testifying to the good…
- Philippians 3:13–14
  Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
Through
Numbers 4:23
from thirty to fifty years old, counting everyone who comes to serve in the work at the Tent of Meeting.
leads to
- Numbers 4:3
  men from thirty to fifty years old—everyone who is qualified to serve in the work at the Tent of Meeting.
- 2 Corinthians 10:3–5
  For though we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh.
- 2 Timothy 2:3–4
  Join me in suffering, like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Numbers

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Numbers