The leader of the ancestral house of the Gershonites was Eliasaph, son of Lael.
The clans of the Gershonites camped behind the tabernacle, to the west.
At the tent of meeting their responsibility was the tabernacle: the tent and its covering, the curtain at the entrance of the tent of meeting,
Take a census of the Gershonites also, by ancestral houses and clans,