Numbers 3:22

22 Their number according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward was seven thousand five hundred.

Numbers 3:22 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 3:22

Those that were numbered of them
Of the two families that sprung from Gershon: according to the number of all the males, from a month old and
upwards:
in the said families; [even] those that were numbered of them, [were] seven thousand and
five hundred;
7,500 men, which was neither the least nor the largest number of the sons of Levi.

Numbers 3:22 In-Context

20 And the sons of Merar'i by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites, by their fathers' houses.

21 Of Gershon were the family of the Libnites and the family of the Shim'e-ites; these were the families of the Gershonites.

22 Their number according to the number of all the males from a month old and upward was seven thousand five hundred.

23 The families of the Gershonites were to encamp behind the tabernacle on the west,

24 with Eli'asaph, the son of La'el as head of the fathers' house of the Gershonites.