from thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, everyone who came to do the work of service and the work of bearing burdens in the tabernacle of meeting --

those who were numbered were eight thousand five hundred and eighty.

Now those who were numbered of them were twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and above; for they were not numbered among the other children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given to them among the children of Israel.

"Because narrow [is] the gate and difficult [is] the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.