Numbers 4:22

22 "Count the Gershonites by families and family groups.

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 must not enter and look at the holy things, even for a second, or they will die."

21 The Lord said to Moses,

22 "Count the Gershonites by families and family groups.

23 Count the men from thirty to fifty years old, all who have a job to do in the Meeting Tent.

24 "This is what the Gershonite family groups must do and what they must carry.