And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.
And the prince of the fathers’ house of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.
And the prince of a father's house for the Gershonite is Eliasaph son of Lael.
And the prince of the father's house of the Gershonites was Eliasaph the son of Lael.
Numbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.
Voices2
And the chief of the house of the fathers of the Gershonites,.... 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.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
Number the children of Levi--They were numbered as well as the other tribes; but the enumeration was made on a different principle--for while in the other tribes the number of males was calculated from twenty years and upward [Nu 1:3], in that of Levi they were counted "from a month old and upward." The reason for the distinction is obvious.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The verses this one reaches1
“Take a census of the Gershonites as well, by their families and clans,
