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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Gershom
These verses are the census ones, Genesis 46:11, Exodus 6:16 and Numbers 3 and 4, where his family is counted and given its share of the tabernacle work. The note filed with them describes Moses's firstborn, born in Midian and named for a stranger there, who is a different man.
These verses are the census ones, Genesis 46:11, Exodus 6:16 and Numbers 3 and 4, where his family is counted and given its share of the tabernacle work. The note filed with them describes Moses's firstborn, born in Midian and named for a stranger there, who is a different man.
Gershom was Moses's firstborn son, born during Moses's exile in Midian, and his name, meaning a stranger there, reflects Moses's own description of himself as a foreigner in a foreign land.
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- Genesis 46:11
- Exodus 6:16
- Exodus 6:17
- Numbers 3:17
- Numbers 3:18
- Numbers 3:21
- Numbers 3:25
- Numbers 4:22
- Numbers 4:38
- Numbers 4:41
- Numbers 7:7
- Numbers 10:17
- Numbers 26:57
- Joshua 21:6
- Joshua 21:27
- 1 Chronicles 6:1
- 1 Chronicles 23:6
