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Numbers 3:24 KJV
Numbers · chapter 3 · verse 24
And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.Numbers 3:24 · King James Version
Numbers 3:24 in context
22Those 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.
23The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward.
24And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.
25And 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,
26And the hangings of the court, and the curtain for the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and by the altar round about, and the cords of it for all the service thereof.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- GershonitesGêrᵉshunnîya Gereshonite or descendant of GereshonH1649 →
- EliasaphʼElyâçâphEljasaph, the name of two IsraelitesH460 →
- fatherʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- chiefnâsîyʼproperly, an exalted oneH5387 →
- housebayitha houseH1004 →
- sonbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
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The Levites being granted to Aaron to minister to him, they are here delivered to him by tale, that he might know what he had, and employ them accordingly. Observe, I. By what rule they were numbered: Every male from a month old and upward, Num 3:15.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 14-39