John Gill Bible Commentary

This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens. The former of these phrases Aben Ezra interprets of setting up the tabernacle, making the bread (the shewbread), slaying (the sacrifices), and keeping, that is, watching and guarding, the tabernacle; and the latter of what they did when journeying, bearing and carrying the things assigned to them, afterwards mentioned. This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens. The former of these phrases Aben Ezra interprets of setting up the tabernacle, making the bread (the shewbread), slaying (the sacrifices), and keeping, that is, watching and guarding, the tabernacle; and the latter of what they did when journeying, bearing and carrying the things assigned to them, afterwards mentioned. Numbers 4:25 num 4:25 num 4:25 num 4:25And they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle,.... The ten curtains of fine linen, Exo 26:1, and the tabernacle of the congregation; the curtains of goats' hair made for a tent over it, as Jarchi, see Exo 26:7, his covering the covering of rams skins dyed red, Exo 26:14, and the covering of the badgers' skins that is above upon it; over all the rest: and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation; the eastern vail, as Jarchi calls it, which was for the door of the tent that led into the tabernacle, the holy place, Exo 26:36.