Numbers 3:21-26
Legacy Standard Bible
21 Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites and the family of the Shimeites; these were the families of the Gershonites. 22 Their numbered men, in the numbering of every male from a month old and upward, even their numbered men were 7,500. 23 The families of the Gershonites were to camp behind the tabernacle westward, 24 and the leader of the fathers’ households of the Gershonites was Eliasaph the son of Lael.
Responsibilities of the Priests
25 Now (A)the responsibility of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting involved the tabernacle and (B)the tent, its covering, and (C)the screen for the doorway of the tent of meeting, 26 and (D)the hangings of the court, and (E)the screen for the doorway of the court which is around the tabernacle and the altar, and its cords, according to all the service [a]concerning them.
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- Numbers 3:26 Lit of it
Numbers 3:21-26
Revised Standard Version
21 Of Gershon were the family of the Libnites and the family of the Shim′e-ites; these were the families of the Gershonites. 22 Their number according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward was[a] seven thousand five hundred. 23 The families of the Gershonites were to encamp behind the tabernacle on the west, 24 with Eli′asaph, the son of La′el as head of the fathers’ house of the Gershonites. 25 And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting was to be the tabernacle, the tent with its covering, the screen for the door of the tent of meeting, 26 the hangings of the court, the screen for the door of the court which is around the tabernacle and the altar, and its cords; all the service pertaining to these.
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- Numbers 3:22 Heb their number was
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