Numbers 4:24
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New International Version (©2011)
"This is the service of the Gershonite clans in their carrying and their other work:

New Living Translation (©2007)
"These Gershonite clans will be responsible for general service and carrying loads.

English Standard Version (©2001)
This is the service of the clans of the Gershonites, in serving and bearing burdens:

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in carrying:

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
This is the service of the Gershonite clans regarding work and transportation duties:

International Standard Version (©2012)
"These are the responsibilities that the descendants of Gershon are to have:

NET Bible (©2006)
This is the service of the families of Gershonites, as they serve and carry it.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
"This is what the Gershonite families will do and what they will carry:

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and to carry burdens:

American King James Version
This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens:

American Standard Version
This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing burdens:

Douay-Rheims Bible
This is the office of the family of the Gersonites :

Darby Bible Translation
This shall be the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving, and in carrying:

English Revised Version
This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing burdens:

Webster's Bible Translation
This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens:

World English Bible
"This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing burdens:

Young's Literal Translation
This is the service of the families of the Gershonite, to serve -- and for burden,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

4:21-33 We have here the charge of the other two families of the Levites, which, though not so honourable as the first, yet was necessary, and to be done regularly. All the things were delivered them by name. It intimates the care God takes of his church and every member of it. The death of the saints is represented as the taking down of the tabernacle, 2Co 5:1, and the putting it off, 2Pe 1:14. All shall be raised up in the great day, when these vile bodies shall be made like the glorious body of Jesus Christ, and so shall be for ever with the Lord.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens. The former of these phrases Aben Ezra interprets of setting up the tabernacle, making the bread (the shewbread), slaying (the sacrifices), and keeping, that is, watching and guarding, the tabernacle; and the latter of what they did when journeying, bearing and carrying the things assigned to them, afterwards mentioned.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

24-28. This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, &c.—They were appointed to carry "the curtains of the tabernacle"—that is, the goats' hair covering of the tent—the ten curious curtains and embroidered hangings at the entrance, with their red morocco covering, &c.

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Duties of the Gershonites
…23From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shall you number them; all that enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation. 24This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens: 25And they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tabernacle of the congregation, his covering, and the covering of the badgers' skins that is above on it, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, …

Numbers 3:25 At the tent of meeting the Gershonites were responsible for the care of the tabernacle and tent, its coverings, the curtain at the entrance to the tent of meeting,
Numbers 4:23 Count all the men from thirty to fifty years of age who come to serve in the work at the tent of meeting.
Numbers 4:25 They are to carry the curtains of the tabernacle, that is, the tent of meeting, its covering and its outer covering of durable leather, the curtains for the entrance to the tent of meeting,
Numbers 7:7 He gave two carts and four oxen to the Gershonites, as their work required,