Numbers 4:24

24 This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and carrying:

Numbers 4:24 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 4:24

This [is] the service of the families of the Gershonites, to
serve, and for burdens.
] The former of these phrases Aben Ezra interprets of setting up the tabernacle, making the bread (the shewbread), slaying (the sacrifices), and keeping, that is, watching and guarding, the tabernacle; and the latter of what they did when journeying, bearing and carrying the things assigned to them, afterwards mentioned.

Numbers 4:24 In-Context

22 "Also take a census of the sons of Gershon, by their fathers' house, by their families.

23 From thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, you shall number them, all who enter to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of meeting.

24 This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and carrying:

25 They shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle and the tabernacle of meeting with its covering, the covering of badger skins that is on it, the screen for the door of the tabernacle of meeting,

26 the screen for the door of the gate of the court, the hangings of the court which are around the tabernacle and altar, and their cords, all the furnishings for their service and all that is made for these things: so shall they serve.