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John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 4:22

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon, etc.] As well as of the sons of Kohath; for though Gershon was Levi’s eldest son, yet his posterity were not excused from the service of the tabernacle, and bearing things of it in journeying: throughout the houses of their fathers, by their families; all in their several houses, and in the several families in those houses, that were of the age next mentioned, were to be numbered.
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