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Numbers 4:22

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“Take a census of the Gershonites as well, by their families and clans,

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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This verse in Numbers 4

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying

on Numbers 4:21-28

Gershon is the eldest of Levi's three sons and his families are numbered second, and their charge is the fabric of the tent, the curtains, the coverings, the hanging at the door, the hangings of the court and the cords. Verse 24 calls it to serve, and for burdens, and verse 26 closes so shall they serve, so one word covers the standing work and the carrying work alike. Every load is assigned by Aaron and his sons, and verse 27 says ye shall appoint unto them in charge all their burdens, so each man received his piece from the priests. Gershon answers to Ithamar, the younger son of Aaron, who had already kept the account of the tabernacle's materials at Exodus 38:21.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

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.

The words behind it

10 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • נָשֹׂ֗אlift up

    naso'H5375 →656 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • רֹ֛אשׁ[the] head of

    roshH7218 →599 times

  • בְּנֵ֥י[the] descendants of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • גֵרְשׁ֖וֹןGershon

    gereshonH1648 →18 times

  • גַּם־also

    gam-H1571 →769 times

  • הֵ֑םthey

    hemH1992 →553 times

  • לְבֵ֥יתto [the] house of

    leveitH1004 →2046 times

  • אֲבֹתָ֖םancestors their

    ʾavotamH1 →1212 times

  • לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָֽם׃to clans their

    lemishpechotamH4940 →303 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Numbers 3:18

    These were the names of the sons of Gershon by their clans: Libni and Shimei.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 6:17–19

      The sons of Gershon were Libni and Shimei, by their clans.

    • 1 Chronicles 6:17

      These are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.

    • 1 Chronicles 23:7–11

      The Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.

    • Nehemiah 12:1–26

      Now these are the priests and Levites who went up with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and with Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,

    • Numbers 3:21

      From Gershon came the Libnite clan and the Shimeite clan; these were the Gershonite clans.

Where this verse is studied

On this page

Studies1

About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 4 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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