Numbers 3:25

25 The duties of the children of Gershon in the tabernacle of meeting included the tabernacle, the tent with its covering, the screen for the door of the tabernacle of meeting,

Numbers 3:25 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 3:25

And the charge of the sons of Gershom
The Libnites and Shimites: in the tabernacle of the congregation;
or with respect to the things of it, when it was taken down and committed to them; for otherwise they had no place in it, nor might they enter into it, or do any service therein: [shall be] the tabernacle and the tent;
the former intends not the boards of it, which were the charge of the Merarites, ( Numbers 3:36 ) ; but the curtains, as Aben Ezra, or the under curtains, as Jarchi calls them, which were made of fine twined linen, ( Exodus 26:1 ) ; and the latter is to be understood of the eleven curtains, as Aben Ezra, the curtains of goats hair, which were made for the roof of the tabernacle, as Jarchi observes, see ( Exodus 26:7 ) ; the covering thereof:
made of rams' skins, and badgers' skins, which were thrown over the tent, ( Exodus 26:14 ) ; and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation;
the vail, as Jarchi calls it; not what divided the holy and most holy places, for that fell to the charge of the Kohathites, ( Numbers 3:31 ) ; but the vail or hanging which was at the door of the tent, or which led into the holy place, ( Exodus 26:36 ) .

Numbers 3:25 In-Context

23 The families of the Gershonites were to camp behind the tabernacle westward.

24 And the leader of the fathers' house of the Gershonites was Eliasaph the son of Lael.

25 The duties of the children of Gershon in the tabernacle of meeting included the tabernacle, the tent with its covering, the screen for the door of the tabernacle of meeting,

26 the screen for the door of the court, the hangings of the court which are around the tabernacle and the altar, and their cords, according to all the work relating to them.

27 From Kohath came the family of the Amramites, the family of the Izharites, the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites; these were the families of the Kohathites.