Accoring to the Torah, Gershon was the eldest of the sons of Levi, and the patriarchal founder of the Gershonites, one of the four main divisions among the Levites in Biblical times; biblical scholars regard the name as being essentially the same as Gershom (Hebrew: גֵּרְשֹׁם, Standard Gerəom Tiberian Gērəōm), which appears to mean a sojourner there (גר שם), and it is Gershom rather than Gershon who is sometimes listed by the Book of Chronicles, as a founder of one of the principle Levite factions. The torah names Gershon's sons as Libni and Shimei .