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New Life Version

Numbers 3:23

The families of the Gershonites were to set up their tents behind the meeting tent on the west side.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Census;   Gershon;   Levites;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Levites, the;   Tabernacle;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Levite;   Tabernacle;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Worship;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Gershon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Levites;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Gershon, Gershonites;   Job;   Machpelah;   Moses;   Priests and Levites;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - First-Begotten, First-Born,;   Gershon, Gershonites ;   Kohath, Kohathites ;   Levites ;   Merari, Merarites ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Camp and encamp;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Armies;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Last Days at Sinai;   On to Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Merari;   Moses;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The families of the Gershoni shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward.
King James Version
The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward.
Lexham English Bible
The clans of the Gershonites will camp behind the tabernacle to the west,
New Century Version
The Gershonite family groups camped on the west side, behind the Holy Tent.
New English Translation
The families of the Gershonites were to camp behind the tabernacle toward the west.
Amplified Bible
The families of the Gershonites were to camp behind the tabernacle on the west,
New American Standard Bible
The families of the Gershonites were to camp behind the tabernacle westward,
Geneva Bible (1587)
The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the Tabernacle westward.
Legacy Standard Bible
The families of the Gershonites were to camp behind the tabernacle westward,
Contemporary English Version
The Gershonites were to camp on the west side of the sacred tent,
Complete Jewish Bible
The Gershon clans were to camp behind the tabernacle, toward the west.
Darby Translation
The families of the Gershonites encamped behind the tabernacle westward.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Gershonite family groups were told to camp in the west. They made their camp behind the Holy Tent.
English Standard Version
The clans of the Gershonites were to camp behind the tabernacle on the west,
George Lamsa Translation
The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward.
Good News Translation
This clan was to camp on the west behind the Tent,
Christian Standard Bible®
The Gershonite clans camped behind the tabernacle on the west side,
Literal Translation
The families of the Gershonites were to encamp behind the tabernacle westward.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the same kynreds of the Gersonites shal pitche behinde the Habitacion on the west syde:
American Standard Version
The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward.
Bible in Basic English
The tents of the Gershonites are to be placed at the back of the House, to the west.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the kinredes of the Gersonites shall pitch behinde the tabernacle westwarde.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The families of the Gershonites were to pitch behind the tabernacle westward;
King James Version (1611)
The families of the Gershonites shal pitch behind the Tabernacle Westward.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the sons of Gedson shall encamp westward behind the tabernacle.
English Revised Version
The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward.
Berean Standard Bible
The Gershonite clans were to camp on the west, behind the tabernacle,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
These schulen sette tentis aftir the tabernacle at the west,
Young's Literal Translation
The families of the Gershonite, behind the tabernacle, do encamp westward.
Update Bible Version
The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward.
Webster's Bible Translation
The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward.
World English Bible
The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward.
New King James Version
The families of the Gershonites were to camp behind the tabernacle westward.
New Living Translation
They were assigned the area to the west of the Tabernacle for their camp.
New Revised Standard
The clans of the Gershonites were to camp behind the tabernacle on the west,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
the families of the Gershonites, to the rear of the habitation, were to encamp, westward.
Douay-Rheims Bible
These shall pitch behind the tabernacle on the west,
Revised Standard Version
The families of the Gershonites were to encamp behind the tabernacle on the west,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The families of the Gershonites were to camp behind the tabernacle westward,

Contextual Overview

14 Then the Lord said to Moses in the Desert of Sinai, 15 "Number the sons of Levi by their fathers' houses and by their families. Number every male a month old and older." 16 So Moses numbered them just as he had been told by the word of the Lord. 17 The names of the sons of Levi are Gershon, Kohath and Merari. 18 The names of the sons of Gershon by their families are Libni and Shimei. 19 The sons of Kohath by their families are Amram, Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel. 20 The sons of Merari by their families are Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites by their fathers' houses. 21 Of Gershon were the families of the Libnites and the Shimeites. These were the families of the Gershonites. 22 The number of their men, every male a month old and older, was 7,500. 23 The families of the Gershonites were to set up their tents behind the meeting tent on the west side.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 1:53, Numbers 2:17

Reciprocal: Numbers 1:50 - shall encamp Numbers 3:29 - General Numbers 3:38 - toward Numbers 8:15 - go in

Cross-References

Genesis 2:5
Now no bush of the field was yet on the earth. And no plant of the field had started to grow. For the Lord God had not sent rain upon the earth. And there was no man to work the ground.
Genesis 3:19
You will eat bread by the sweat of your face because of hard work, until you return to the ground, because you were taken from the ground. You are dust, and you will return to dust."
Genesis 4:2
Next she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was one who worked the ground.
Genesis 4:12
When you work the ground, it will no longer give its strength to you. You will always travel from place to place on the earth."
Genesis 9:20
Then Noah became a farmer and planted a grape-field.
Ecclesiastes 5:9
After all, a country does better with a king in power.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The families of the Gershonites,.... The two before mentioned, the Libnites and Shimites:

shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward; this was their situation when encamped; they were placed in the rear of the camp of the Levites, between the tabernacle and the camp of Ephraim, which was westward also, Numbers 1:18.


 
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