and the leader of the fathers’ households of the Gershonites was Eliasaph the son of Lael.
The families of the Gershonites were to camp behind the tabernacle westward,
Now the responsibility of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting involved the tabernacle and the tent, its covering, and the screen for the doorway of the tent of meeting,
“Take a census of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers’ households, by their families;