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1Chr 23:3

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

1Chr 23:3 · Douay-Rheims
“And the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years, and upwards: and there were found of them thirty-eight thousand men.”
Patristic before A.D. 750
528
A.D.
Procopius of Gaza Patristic
c. A.D. 465–528
“The text of Chronicles makes a list of the Levites according to the importance and dignity given them by the great Moses. It demonstrates how the successors of Moses were chosen for this purpose and how Zadok was appointed as the high priest, along with his nephew Eleazari, and also Abimelech, nephew of Itamari. It includes two lineages, one of which is connected with Itamari which it attributes to those who descend from them. Also Luke mentions this genealogy in his Gospel, considering Zechariah as belonging to the lineage of Abijah. The aforementioned book [of Chronicles] shows that Abija was the seventh to obtain by lot this inheritance.”
Source
Modern · 1953 →

The in-app commentary runs from the Fathers to the early-modern record, then stops — that's where the public-domain sources end, not where the reading does. For the modern reading, follow the sources directly.