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Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites and the family of the Shimeites; these were the families of the Gershonites.

Their numbered men, in the counting of every male from a month old and upward, their numbered men were 7,500.

The families of the Gershonites were to camp behind the ^(F1)tabernacle westward,

and the leader of the fathers' households of the Gershonites: Eliasaph the son of Lael.

Now ^(C1)the duties of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting included the tabernacle and ^(C2)the tent, its covering, and ^(C3)the curtain for the entrance of the tent of meeting,

and ^(C1)the curtains of the courtyard, ^(C2)the curtain for the entrance of the courtyard which is around the tabernacle and the altar, and its ropes, according to all the service ^(F1)concerning them.