¹⁷ These were Levi’s sons by name: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

²¹ The Libnite clan and the Shimeite clan came from Gershon; these were the Gershonite clans. ²² Those registered, counting every male one month old or more, numbered 7,500. ²³ The Gershonite clans camped behind the tabernacle on the west side,^{(A) 24} and the leader of the Gershonite families^[a] was Eliasaph son of Lael. ²⁵ The Gershonites’ duties^(B) at the tent of meeting involved the tabernacle, the tent, its covering, the screen for the entrance to the tent of meeting,^{(C) 26} the hangings of the courtyard, the screen for the entrance^(D) to the courtyard that surrounds the tabernacle and the altar, and the tent ropes—all the work relating to these.