Numbers Chapter 3 verse 23 Holy Bible
The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward.
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The tents of the Gershonites are to be placed at the back of the House, to the west.
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The families of the Gershonites encamped behind the tabernacle westward.
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The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward.
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The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward.
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The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward.
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The families of the Gershonite, behind the tabernacle, do encamp westward.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 23. - Shall pitch. These directions as to the position and duties of the Levitical families retain the form in which they were originally given. The way in which they are mixed up with direct narrative affords a striking proof of the inartificial character of these sacred writings. Behind the tabernacle westward. The tabernacle opened or looked eastward towards the sunrise.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(23) Behind the tabernacle westward.--As the position of the twelve tribes in respect of the tent of meeting had been already determined, so in this and the following verses the position of the priests and Levites is fixed. On the east side of the tent Moses and Aaron and Aaron's sons were to encamp, on the south the Kohathites, on the west the Gershonites, on the north the Merarites.