Numbers 4:22

22 "{Take a census} of the descendants of Gershon also, according to {their families} and clans,

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 must not go and look {for a moment} at the holy objects."

21 Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

22 "{Take a census} of the descendants of Gershon also, according to {their families} and clans,

23 from {those twenty years old} and above until {fifty years old}; you will muster them, all who come to help to do the work of the tent of assembly.

24 This [is] the work of the clans of the Gershonites: to serve and to carry.

Footnotes

• [a] Literally "And lift up the number of"
• [b] Or "sons"
• [c] Literally "the house of their fathers"