Numbers 4:22

22 tolle summam etiam filiorum Gerson per domos ac familias et cognationes suas

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 alii nulla curiositate videant quae sunt in sanctuario priusquam involvantur alioquin morientur

21 locutus est Dominus ad Mosen dicens

22 tolle summam etiam filiorum Gerson per domos ac familias et cognationes suas

23 a triginta annis et supra usque ad annos quinquaginta numera omnes qui ingrediuntur et ministrant in tabernaculo foederis

24 hoc est officium familiae Gersonitarum