Numbers 3:22

22 The {ones counted} according to the number of every male from {one month} and above [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 The sons of Merari according to their tribes: Mahli and Mushi. These [are] the clans of the Levites according to {their families}.

21 {To Gershon belonged} the clan of the Libnites and the clan of the Shimeites; these [are] the clans of the Gershonites.

22 The {ones counted} according to the number of every male from {one month} and above [were] seven thousand five hundred.

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

24 and the leader of {the family} of the Gershonites is Eliasaph son of Lael.

Footnotes

• [a] Literally "the ones counted of them," or "the ones mustered of them"
• [b] Literally "the son of a month and above"