Numbers 3:23

23 The clans of the Gershonites were to camp behind the tabernacle on the west,

Numbers 3:23 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 3:23

The families of the Gershonites
The two before mentioned, the Libnites and Shimites: shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward;
this was their situation when encamped; they were placed in the rear of the camp of the Levites, between the tabernacle and the camp of Ephraim, which was westward also, ( Numbers 1:18 ) .

Numbers 3:23 In-Context

21 To Gershon belonged the clan of the Libnites and the clan of the Shimeites; these were the clans of the Gershonites.

22 Their enrollment, counting all the males from a month old and upward, was seven thousand five hundred.

23 The clans of the Gershonites were to camp behind the tabernacle on the west,

24 with Eliasaph son of Lael as head of the ancestral house of the Gershonites.

25 The responsibility of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting was to be the tabernacle, the tent with its covering, the screen for the entrance of the tent of meeting,