GERSHOM, or Gershon, the son of Levi, and Prince of one of the great families of the Levites. This family in a month or something more, after the departure of the Israelites out of Egypt, consisted of seven thousand five hundred men. Their office in the several marches through the wilderness, was to carry the Vails and Curtains belonging to the Tabernacle. Their place in the Camp of Israel, was to the west of the Tabernacle.
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