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Gershon

A man from the tribe of Levi living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Gen.46.11) referred to as Gershon or Gershom or Gershonite (גֵּרְשׁוֹן), or Gershom or Gershomite (גֵּרְשֹׁם), or Gershonite or Gershon (גֵּרְשֻׁנִּי); son of Levi; a brother of Kohath, Merari and Jochebed; father of Libni and Shimei.

Named in 25 verses across 5 books of the Bible.

Every verse

1 Chronicles 6:1The sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

1 Chronicles 6:16The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.

1 Chronicles 6:17And these be the names of the sons of Gershom; Libni, and Shimei.

1 Chronicles 6:20Of Gershom; Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,

1 Chronicles 6:43The son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.

1 Chronicles 6:62And to the sons of Gershom throughout their families out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.

1 Chronicles 6:71Unto the sons of Gershom were given out of the family of the half tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, and Ashtaroth with her suburbs:

1 Chronicles 15:7Of the sons of Gershom; Joel the chief, and his brethren an hundred and thirty:

1 Chronicles 23:6And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

1 Chronicles 23:7Of the Gershonites were, Laadan, and Shimei.

Exodus 6:16And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi were an hundred thirty and seven years.

Exodus 6:17The sons of Gershon; Libni, and Shimi, according to their families.

Genesis 46:11And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Joshua 21:6And the children of Gershon had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.

Joshua 21:27And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the other half tribe of Manasseh they gave Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Beeshterah with her suburbs; two cities.

Numbers 3:17And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.

Numbers 3:18And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families; Libni, and Shimei.

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

Numbers 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,

Numbers 4:22Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon, throughout the houses of their fathers, by their families;

Numbers 4:38And those that were numbered of the sons of Gershon, throughout their families, and by the house of their fathers,

Numbers 4:41These are they that were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, of all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, whom Moses and Aaron did number according to the commandment of the LORD.

Numbers 7:7Two wagons and four oxen he gave unto the sons of Gershon, according to their service:

Numbers 10:17And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set forward, bearing the tabernacle.

Numbers 26:57And these are they that were numbered of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites.

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