Key Verse Spotlight
Numbers 3:23 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward.”
Numbers 3:23
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
Of Gershon {was} the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites: these {are} the families of the Gershonites.
Those 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.
The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward.
And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites {shall be} Eliasaph the son of Lael.
And 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,
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