Numbers 4:22

22 “Take a census also of the Gershonites by their families and clans.

Numbers 4:22 in Other Translations

22 Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon, throughout the houses of their fathers, by their families;

22 "Take a census of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers' houses and by their clans.

22 “Record the names of the members of the clans and families of the Gershonite division of the tribe of Levi.

22 "Number the Gershonites by tribes according to their ancestral families.

22 "Take a census of the Gershonites also, by their ancestral houses and their 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 the Kohathites must not go in to look at the holy things, even for a moment, or they will die.”

21 The LORD said to Moses,

22 “Take a census also of the Gershonites by their families and clans.

23 Count all the men from thirty to fifty years of age who come to serve in the work at the tent of meeting.

24 “This is the service of the Gershonite clans in their carrying and their other work: