Discovery BoxNumbers 4:47 
Context4:47 from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, everyone who entered to do the work of service and the work of carrying 1 relating to the tent of meeting –
Numbers 31:47
Context31:47 From the Israelites’ share Moses took one of every fifty people and animals and gave them to the Levites who were responsible for the care of the Lord’s tabernacle, just as the Lord commanded Moses.
1 tn The text multiplies the vocabulary of service here in the summary. In the Hebrew text the line reads literally: “everyone who came to serve the service of serving, and the service of burden.” The Levites came into service in the shrine, and that involved working in the sanctuary as well as carrying it from one place to the next.
