Numbers 3:23
“The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward.”
Numbers 3:23 in 7 translations
- KJVKing James Version
- The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward.
- DRADouay–Rheims
- These shall pitch behind the tabernacle on the west,
- ASVAmerican Standard Version
- The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward.
- DARBYDarby
- The families of the Gershonites encamped behind the tabernacle westward.
- WEBThe World English Bible
- The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward.
- YLTYoung's Literal Translation
- The families of the Gershonite, behind the tabernacle, do encamp westward.
- BPVBiblePics Version
- The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward.
Context: Numbers 3
21Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites: these are the families of the Gershonites.
22Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred.
23The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward.
24And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.
25And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, the covering thereof, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,
About Numbers 3: The Levites
A second census is taken of the Levites, and their duties in serving the Tabernacle are outlined.
Commentary
In Numbers 3, we see the Lord instructing Moses to take a census of the Levites, who were to serve as the priests of Israel. The Lord commands that all males from the age of one month and older were to be counted. The Lord then instructs Moses to assign the Levites to the service of the tabernacle, and to assign them to the various tasks of the tabernacle. The Lord also commands that the Levites were to be redeemed from the other tribes of Israel, and that they were to be given to Aaron and his sons as a special gift from the Lord.