Numbers 3:22

22 Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, those that were numbered of them were seven thousand five hundred.

Numbers 3:22 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 3:22

Those that were numbered of them
Of the two families that sprung from Gershon: according to the number of all the males, from a month old and
upwards:
in the said families; [even] those that were numbered of them, [were] seven thousand and
five hundred;
7,500 men, which was neither the least nor the largest number of the sons of Levi.

Numbers 3:22 In-Context

20 And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to the houses of their fathers.

21 Of Gershon was the family of Libni and the family of Shimei; these are the families of Gershon.

22 Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, those that were numbered of them were seven thousand five hundred.

23 The families of Gershon shall pitch behind the tabernacle to the west;

24 and the prince of the house of the father of the Gershonites, Eliasaph, son of Lael.