²¹ From Gershon was the family of the Libnites and the family of the Shimeites. These are the families of the Gershonites. ²² Those who were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and older, those who were numbered of them were seven thousand five hundred. ²³ The families of the Gershonites were to camp behind the west side of the tabernacle. ²⁴ The chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites was Eliasaph the son of Lael. ²⁵ The charge of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting included the tabernacle, and the tent, its covering, and the hanging for the door of the tent of meeting, ²⁶ the hangings of the court, the curtain for the opening of the court that is around the tabernacle and the altar, and its cords—all the service pertaining to these.