Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon, throughout the houses of their fathers, by their families;
Take the sum of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers’ houses, by their families;
`Take up the sum of the sons of Gershon also by the house of their fathers, by their families;
Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon, according to their fathers' houses, after their families.
Numbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.
Voices1
Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon,.... As well as of the sons of Kohath; for though Gershon was Levi's eldest son, yet his posterity were not excused from the service of the tabernacle, and bearing things of it in journeying: throughout the houses of their fathers, by their families; all in their several houses, and in the several families in those houses, that were of the age next mentioned, were to be numbered.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The verses this one reaches3
and the leader of the families of the Gershonites was Eliasaph son of Lael.
From Gershon came the Libnite clan and the Shimeite clan; these were the Gershonite clans.
These were the names of the sons of Gershon by their clans: Libni and Shimei.
The walk5
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Numbers 3:18These were the names of the sons of Gershon by their clans: Libni and Shimei.
leads to
The sons of Gershon were Libni and Shimei, by their clans.
These are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.
The Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
Now these are the priests and Levites who went up with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and with Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,
From Gershon came the Libnite clan and the Shimeite clan; these were the Gershonite clans.
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