Numbers 4:22

22 "Count the Gershon families. Make a list of them family by family.

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 men of Kohath must not go in and look at the holy things. They must not look at them even for a moment. If they do, they will die."

21 The LORD said to Moses,

22 "Count the Gershon families. Make a list of them family by family.

23 Count all of the men who are from 30 to 50 years old. Those are the men who must come and serve at the Tent of Meeting.

24 "Here is how the Gershon families must serve. They must carry things.