20. The sons of Merari according to their tribes: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites according to their families.
21. To Gershon belonged the clan of the Libnites and the clan of the Shimeites; these are the clans of the Gershonites.
22. The ones counted according to the number of every male from one month and above were seven thousand five hundred.
23. The clans of the Gershonites will camp behind the tabernacle to the west,
24. and the leader of the family of the Gershonites is Eliasaph son of Lael.
25. And the responsibility of the descendants of Gershon in the tent of assembly is the tabernacle, and the tent covering it and the curtain of the doorway of the tent of the assembly,
26. and the hangings of the courtyard and the curtain of the doorway of the courtyard that is around the tabernacle and the altar, and its ten cords, all of its use.