Numbers 3:23

The families of Gershon shall encamp behind the tabernacle, westward:

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward.

In Context

22Those that were numbered of them, every male from the son of a month and upward, the number of them was seven thousand and five hundred.

24And the Rab of the house of the fathers of Gershon, Eljasaph bar Lael.

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Cross References

Numbers 1:53But the Levites shall dwell round about the tabernacle of the testimony, that there may not be wrath upon the congregation of the sons of Israel; and the Levites shall watch the watching of the tabernacle of testimony.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 3:15-40

14 And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying, 15 Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them. 16 And Moses numbered them according to the word of the Lord , as he was commanded. 17 And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. 18 And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families; Libni, and Shimei. 19 And the sons of Kohath by their families;… Read the whole commentary →

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