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Numbers 3:23

21 Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites: these are the families of the Gershonites.

22 Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred.

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

24 And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.

25 And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, the covering thereof, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
The Gershonite clans were to camp on the west, behind the tabernacle,
KJV
The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward.
WEB
The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward.
ASV
The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward.
DARBY
The families of the Gershonites encamped behind the tabernacle westward.
BLB
The clans of the Gershonite behind the tabernacle were to camp westward.
ÅB
Gersonittenes slekter hadde sin leir bak tabernaklet, mot vest.
OTB
Gershonittenes familier skulle slå leir vestover, bak tabernaklet.
B1930
Gersonittenes ætter hadde sin leir bak tabernaklet, mot vest.

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Cross references

  • Numbers 1:53

    But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony.

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  • Numbers 2:17

    Then the tabernacle of the congregation shall set forward with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camp: as they encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place by their standards.

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