Numbers 3:24

24 Under their prince Eliasaph the son of Lael.

Numbers 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.

Numbers 3:24 In-Context

22 Of which were numbered, people of the male sex from one month and upward, seven thousand five hundred.
23 These shall pitch behind the tabernacle on the west,
24 Under their prince Eliasaph the son of Lael.
25 And their charge shall be in the tabernacle of the covenant:
26 The tabernacle itself and the cover thereof, the hanging that is drawn before the doors of the tabernacle of the covenant, and the curtains of the court: the hanging also that is hanged in the entry of the court of the tabernacle, and whatsoever belongeth to the rite of the altar, the cords of the tabernacle, and all the furniture thereof.
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