Numbers 3:23
The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
The Levites being granted to Aaron to minister to him, they are here delivered to him by tale, that he might know what he had, and employ them accordingly. Observe,
I. By what rule they were numbered:…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
behind The usual expression for -westward," because the Hebrew faced eastward when thinking of the points of the compass; cf. Exo 3:1; Deu 11:30; Jdg 18:12; Isa 9:12. With the characteristic tautology…