Numbers 3:21
Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites: these are the families of the Gershonites.
Numbers 3:21 in other translations
| BSB | From Gershon came the Libnite clan and the Shimeite clan; these were the Gershonite clans. |
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| WEB | Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimeites. These are the families of the Gershonites. |
| ASV | Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimeites: these are the families of the Gershonites. |
| YLT | Of Gershon is the family of the Libnite, and the family of the Shimite; these are the families of the Gershonite. |
| DARBY | Of Gershon, the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites: these are the families of the Gershonites. |
| BBE | From Gershon come the Libnites and the Shimeites; these are the families of the Gershonites. |
| Webster | Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites: these are the families of the Gershonites. |
What does Numbers 3:21 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 3:14-31
14-31. Number the children of Levi--They were numbered as well as the other tribes; but the enumeration was made on a different principle--for while in the other tribes the number of males was calculated from twenty years and upward [Nu 1:3], in that of Levi they were counted "from a month old and upward." The reason for the distinction is obvious. In the other tribes the survey was made for purposes of war [Nu…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 3:14-39
The Levites were in three classes, according to the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari; and these were subdivided into families. The posterity of Moses were not at all honoured or privileged, but stood upon the level with other Levites; thus it was plain, that Moses did not seek the advancement of his own family, or to secure any honours to it. The tribe of Levi was by much the least of all the tribes. God's…
Numbers 3:21 in the original Hebrew
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Context
- Numbers 3:20
And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers.
- Numbers 3:21
Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites: these are the families of the Gershonites.
- Numbers 3:22
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.
Numbers 3:21 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | De Gersón, la familia de Libni y la de Simei: estas son las familias de Gersón. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | De Guershon, la famille des Libnites et la famille des Shimhites; ce sont là les familles des Guershonites: |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Von Gerson die Familie der Libniter und die Familie der Simeiter; das sind die Familien der Gersoniter. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | De Gerson fuere familiæ duæ, Lebnitica, et Semeitica: |