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Numbers 3:21

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Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites: these are the families of the Gershonites.
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Numbers 3:21

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family

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A household, kindred, lineage, tribe, or group descended from a common ancestor.

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families

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Households, kindreds, lineages, tribes, or groups descended from common ancestors.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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3:21Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites: these are the families of the Gershonites.

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3:22Those 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.

3:23The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward.

3:24And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.

3:25And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, the covering thereof, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,

3:26And the hangings of the court, and the curtain for the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and by the altar round about, and the cords of it for all the service thereof.

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