Numbers 4:22

22 "Take a census of the Gershonites^[a] also, by their ancestral houses and their clans.

Numbers 4:22 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 4:22

Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon
As well as of the sons of Kohath; for though Gershon was Levi's eldest son, yet his posterity were not excused from the service of the tabernacle, and bearing things of it in journeying:

throughout the houses of their fathers, by their families;
all in their several houses, and in the several families in those houses, that were of the age next mentioned, were to be numbered.

Numbers 4:22 In-Context

20 The Kohathites are not to go in and look at the holy objects, even for a moment, or they will die."

21 The Lord spoke to Moses:

22 "Take a census of the Gershonites also, by their ancestral houses and their clans.

23 Register men from 30 years old to 50 years old, everyone who is qualified to perform service, to do work at the tent of meeting.

24 This is the service of the Gershonite clans regarding work and transportation duties:

Footnotes

• [a]. Nm 3:17,21-26