Numbers 4:22

22 "Take a census of the descendants of Gershon also, by clans and families;

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 descendants of K'hat are not to go in and look at the holy things as they are being covered; if they do, they will die."

21 ADONAI said to Moshe,

22 "Take a census of the descendants of Gershon also, by clans and families;

23 count all those between thirty and fifty years old, all who will enter the corps doing the work of serving in the tent of meeting.

24 "The Gershon families are to be responsible for serving and for transporting loads.