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Levites Serve from Twenty-Five to Fifty
Numbers 8 says Levites enter this service from age twenty-five and stop the heavy service at fifty, though they may still assist their brothers. Numbers 4 repeatedly counted transport workers from thirty to fifty. The difference is real in the Masoretic/KJV text and deserves explanation rather than an invisible harmonization.
Numbers 4 repeatedly counts transport workers from age thirty to fifty; Numbers 8:23–26 gives a twenty-five-to-fifty service range in the Masoretic/KJV text, creating a real age-threshold question that must be explained rather than hidden.
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