The familiesof the Gershoniteswere to campbehindthe tabernaclewestward,
"But the Levitesshall camparoundthe tabernacleof the testimony,so that there will be nowrathon the congregationof the sonsof Israel.So the Levitesshall keepchargeof the tabernacleof the testimony."
"Then the tentof meetingshall setout [with] the campof the Levitesin the midstof the camps;justas they camp,sothey shall setout, everymanin his placeby their standards.
Their numberedmen, in the numberingof everymalefrom a montholdand upward,[even] their numberedmen [were] 7,500
and the leaderof the fathers'householdsof the Gershonites[was] Eliasaphthe sonof Lael.
