Numbers 4:22

22 "Take a census of the sons of Gershon also, by their families and their fathers' houses;

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 they shall not go in to look upon the holy things even for a moment, lest they die."
21 The LORD said to Moses,
22 "Take a census of the sons of Gershon also, by their families and their fathers' houses;
23 from thirty years old up to fifty years old, you shall number them, all who can enter for service, to do the work in the tent of meeting.
24 This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and bearing burdens:
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