Numbers 8:23-26

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[23] Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, [24] "This is that which belongs to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to wait on the service in the work of the Tent of Meeting; [25] and from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting on the work, and shall serve no more, [26] but shall minister with their brothers in the Tent of Meeting, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shall you do to the Levites concerning their duties."

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Egypt was the land from which God delivered Israel and where the Levites’ firstborn status was spared at the Passover. This background explains why the Levites belonged specially to the Lord and were assigned lifelong service, with retirement from heavy duties beginning at age fifty.

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Numbers 8:23-26 mentions Egypt.

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