Ancient Wisdom Atlas

Motif

Age-bounded ritual service

age_bounded_ritual_service

A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.

1 occurrences

1 traditions


jewish christian

  • Numbers Chapter 2 / Chapter 3 / Footnotes / Chapter 4; lines 452-468 confidence: medium

    Families of the sons of Merari are counted by family and fathers’ house; eligible workers are thirty to fifty years old; the counted number is three thousand two hundred; the counting is according to Yahweh’s commandment by Moses.

    The service groups are restricted to those from thirty years old upward to fifty years old.

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