Numbers 3:24

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

Numbers 3:24 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 3:24

And the chief of the house of the fathers of the Gershonites,
&c.] Who had the chief authority over them, and the chief direction of them in what they were to do: [shall be] Eliasaph the son of Lael;
but who he was, or of which family of the Gershonites, whether of the Libnites or Shimites, is not said here or elsewhere; nor do the Jewish writers, who affect to know every thing, pretend to tell us.

Numbers 3:24 In-Context

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.

25 And the responsibility of the descendants of Gershon in the tent of assembly [is] the tabernacle, and the tent covering it and the curtain of the doorway of the tent of the assembly,

26 and the hangings of the courtyard and the curtain of the doorway of the courtyard that [is] around the tabernacle and the altar, and its ten cords, all of its use.

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "[the] house of [his] father"