Numbers 3:23
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New International Version (©2011)
The Gershonite clans were to camp on the west, behind the tabernacle.

New Living Translation (©2007)
They were assigned the area to the west of the Tabernacle for their camp.

English Standard Version (©2001)
The clans of the Gershonites were to camp behind the tabernacle on the west,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
The families of the Gershonites were to camp behind the tabernacle westward,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The Gershonite clans camped behind the tabernacle on the west side,

International Standard Version (©2012)
The families of the descendants of Gershon encamped behind the tent toward the west.

NET Bible (©2006)
The families of the Gershonites were to camp behind the tabernacle toward the west.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The families descended from Gershon put up their tents on the west side behind the tent of meeting.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle on the west.

American King James Version
The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward.

American Standard Version
The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward.

Douay-Rheims Bible
These shall pitch behind the tabernacle on the west,

Darby Bible Translation
The families of the Gershonites encamped behind the tabernacle westward.

English Revised Version
The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward.

Webster's Bible Translation
The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward.

World English Bible
The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward.

Young's Literal Translation
The families of the Gershonite, behind the tabernacle, do encamp westward.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

3:14-39 The Levites were in three classes, according to the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari; and these were subdivided into families. The posterity of Moses were not at all honoured or privileged, but stood upon the level with other Levites; thus it was plain, that Moses did not seek the advancement of his own family, or to secure any honours to it. The tribe of Levi was by much the least of all the tribes. God's chosen are but a little flock in comparison with the world.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 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.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 rear of the camp of the Levites, between the tabernacle and the camp of Ephraim, which was westward also, Numbers 1:18.

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The Gershonites
21Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites: these are the families of the Gershonites. 22Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred. 23The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward. …

Numbers 1:53 The Levites, however, are to set up their tents around the tabernacle of the covenant law so that my wrath will not fall on the Israelite community. The Levites are to be responsible for the care of the tabernacle of the covenant law."
Numbers 3:22 The number of all the males a month old or more who were counted was 7,500.
Numbers 3:24 The leader of the families of the Gershonites was Eliasaph son of Lael.