doc service] Which were of competent age to serve therein; that is, betwixt thirty and fifty; which was so ordered by divine providence, that that family which had the greatest and heaviest burden, had the most serviceable men, to wit, those of the Merarites, who in their totall number were fewer then the other families, yet exceeded any one of them in the number of those who were neither too young to begin the service, nor too old to continue it.