Numbers 4:22

22 Take a census of the Gershonites also, by their ancestral houses and by 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 But the Kohathites must not go in to look on the holy things even for a moment; otherwise they will die.

21 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

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

23 from thirty years old up to fifty years old you shall enroll them, all who qualify to do work in the tent of meeting.

24 This is the service of the clans of the Gershonites, in serving and bearing burdens: