Numbers - 4:22



22 "Take a census of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers' houses, by their families;

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Explanation and meaning of Numbers 4:22.

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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 the sum of the soils of Gerson also by their houses and families and kindreds.
Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon, according to their fathers' houses, after their families.
Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon, throughout the house of their fathers, by their families;
'Take up the sum of the sons of Gershon also by the house of their fathers, by their families;
Let the sons of Gershon be numbered by families, in the order of their fathers' houses;
"Now also take a total of the sons of Gershon, by their houses and families and kinships,
Tolle summam filiorum Gerson, ipsos quoque per domos patrum suormn, et per familias suas:

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Historical Commentaries

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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.

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