Chapter 4 is a second, narrower census within the same tribe: not every Levite male from a month old, but specifically those aged 30 to 50 - the working years for the physical job of carrying the tabernacle apart and reassembling it at every stop on a forty-year, on-again-off-again march.
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Chapter 4 is a second, narrower census within the same tribe: not every Levite male from a month old, but specifically those aged 30 to 50 - the working years for the physical job of carrying the tabernacle apart and reassembling it at every stop on a forty-year, on-again-off-again march.