Topic
Gershon
21 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
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- Genesis 46:11Easton · Smith · Nave Son of Levi
¶ And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
- Exodus 6:16Easton · Smith · Nave Son of Levi
¶ And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi were an hundred thirty and seven years.
- Exodus 6:17Nave Son of Levi
The sons of Gershon; Libni, and Shimi, according to their families.
- Numbers 3:1–51Easton
These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the LORD spake with Moses in mount Sinai. And these are the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the…
- Numbers 3:17–26Nave Son of Levi
And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families; Libni, and Shimei. And the sons of Kohath by their families; Amram, and Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel. And the…
- Numbers 4:22–28Nave Son of Levi
Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon, throughout the houses of their fathers, by their families; From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them; all that enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle…
- Numbers 4:38Nave Son of Levi
And those that were numbered of the sons of Gershon, throughout their families, and by the house of their fathers,
- Numbers 7:7Nave Son of Levi
Two wagons and four oxen he gave unto the sons of Gershon, according to their service:
- Numbers 10:17Nave Son of Levi
And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set forward, bearing the tabernacle.
- Numbers 26:57Nave Son of Levi
¶ And these are they that were numbered of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites.
- Joshua 21:6Nave Son of Levi
And the children of Gershon had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
- Joshua 21:27–33Easton
¶ And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the other half tribe of Manasseh they gave Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Beesh-terah with her suburbs; two cities. And out of the…
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- 1 Chronicles 6:1 Nave Son of Levi
- 1 Chronicles 6:16 Nave Son of Levi
- 1 Chronicles 6:17 Nave Son of Levi
- 1 Chronicles 6:20 Nave Son of Levi
- 1 Chronicles 6:43 Nave Son of Levi
- 1 Chronicles 6:62 Nave Son of Levi
- 1 Chronicles 6:71 Nave Son of Levi
- 1 Chronicles 15:7 Nave Son of Levi
- 1 Chronicles 23:6 Nave Son of Levi
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 4 references
=Ger’shom expulsion, the eldest of Levi’s three sons (Gen. 46:11; Ex. 6:16).
In the wilderness the sons of Gershon had charge of the fabrics of the tabernacle when it was moved from place to place, the curtains, veils, tent-hangings (Num. 3: 21-26). Thirteen Levitical cities fell to the lot of the Gershonites (Josh. 21:27-33).
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 2 references
In the topical indexes
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.