Numbers 3:22

22 All the males who were one month and older numbered 7,500.

Numbers 3:22 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 3:22

Those that were numbered of them
Of the two families that sprung from Gershon: according to the number of all the males, from a month old and
upwards:
in the said families; [even] those that were numbered of them, [were] seven thousand and
five hundred;
7,500 men, which was neither the least nor the largest number of the sons of Levi.

Numbers 3:22 In-Context

20 The sons of Merari by clan: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of Levi, family by family.
21 Gershon was ancestor to the clans of the Libnites and Shimeites, known as the Gershonite clans.
22 All the males who were one month and older numbered 7,500.
23 The Gershonite clans camped on the west, behind The Dwelling,
24 led by Eliasaph son of Lael.
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