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The Gershonites

Numbers 3:23

In 11 translations

BSB
The Gershonite clans were to camp on the west, behind the tabernacle,
KJV
The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward.
WEB
The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward.
ASV
The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward.
LSV
The families of the Gershonite encamp westward behind the Dwelling Place.
YLT
The families of the Gershonite, behind the tabernacle, do encamp westward.
DBY
The families of the Gershonites encamped behind the tabernacle westward.
DRC
These shall pitch behind the tabernacle on the west,
GNV
The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the Tabernacle westward.
JPS
The families of the Gershonites were to pitch behind the tabernacle westward;
LXXE
And the sons of Gedson shall encamp westward behind the tabernacle.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
מִשְׁפְּחֹ֖ת הַגֵּרְשֻׁנִּ֑י אַחֲרֵ֧י הַמִּשְׁכָּ֛ן יַחֲנ֖וּ יָֽמָּה׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ οἱ υἱοὶ Γεδσὼν ὀπίσω τῆς σκηνῆς παρεμβαλοῦσι παρὰ θάλασσαν.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Numbers 1:53But the Levites are to camp around the tabernacle of the Testimony and watch over it, so that no wrath will fall on the congregation of Israel. So the Levites are responsible for the tabernacle of the Testimony.”
  • Numbers 2:17In the middle of the camps, the Tent of Meeting is to travel with the camp of the Levites. They are to set out in the order they encamped, each in his own place under his standard.

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