Bamidbar 3:24

24 And the Nasi of the bais av of the Gershoni shall be Elyasaph ben Lael.

Bamidbar 3:24 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 3:24

And the chief of the house of the fathers of the Gershonites,
&c.] Who had the chief authority over them, and the chief direction of them in what they were to do: [shall be] Eliasaph the son of Lael;
but who he was, or of which family of the Gershonites, whether of the Libnites or Shimites, is not said here or elsewhere; nor do the Jewish writers, who affect to know every thing, pretend to tell us.

Bamidbar 3:24 In-Context

22 Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of kol zachar (all the males), from a month old and upward, even those that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred.

23 The mishpekhot of the Gershoni shall encamp behind the Mishkan westward.

24 And the Nasi of the bais av of the Gershoni shall be Elyasaph ben Lael.

25 And the mishmeret of the Bnei Gershon in the Ohel Mo’ed is as follows: the Mishkan, and the Ohel, the covering thereof, and the curtain at the entrance of the Ohel Mo’ed,

26 And the curtains of the khatzer, and the curtain for the entrance of the khatzer, which is around the Mishkan, and around the mizbe’ach; and the cords of it for kol avodah thereof.