And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.

Under their prince Eliasaph the son of Lael.

And the prince of a father's house for the Gershonite is Eliasaph son of Lael.

the prince of the fathers' house of the Gershonites being Eliasaph the son of Lael,

under the leader Eliasaph the son of Lael.

Et princeps domus patris Gersonitarum erit Eliasaph filius Lael.

And the chief of the house of the fathers of the Gershonites,.... Who had the chief authority over them, and the chief direction of them in what they were to do:
shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael; but who he was, or of which family of the Gershonites, whether of the Libnites or Shimites, is not said here or elsewhere; nor do the Jewish writers, who affect to know every thing, pretend to tell us.