Numbers 3:23
The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward.
Numbers 3:23 in other translations
| BSB | The Gershonite clans were to camp on the west, behind the tabernacle, |
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| WEB | The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward. |
| ASV | The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward. |
| YLT | The families of the Gershonite, behind the tabernacle, do encamp westward. |
| DARBY | The families of the Gershonites encamped behind the tabernacle westward. |
| BBE | The tents of the Gershonites are to be placed at the back of the House, to the west. |
| Webster | The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward. |
What does Numbers 3:23 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 3:23 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Numbers 3:23
- Numbers 1:53
But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony.
- Numbers 2:17
Then the tabernacle of the congregation shall set forward with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camp: as they encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place by their standards.
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Context
- 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 3:23
The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward.
- Numbers 3:24
And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.
Numbers 3:23 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Las familias de Gersón asentarán sus tiendas á espaldas del tabernáculo, al occidente; |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Les familles des Guershonites campèrent derrière le tabernacle, vers l’occident; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Die Familien der Gersoniter lagerten hinter der Wohnung gegen Westen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Hi post tabernaculum metabuntur ad occidentem, |