Numbers 7:1-9 ▼

1 When Moses had completed setting up the tabernacle, he anointed it and consecrated it and all its furnishings, and he anointed and consecrated the altar and all its utensils.

2 Then the leaders of Israel, the heads of their clans, made an offering. They were the leaders of the tribes; they were the ones who had been supervising the numbering.

3 They brought their offering before the LORD, six covered carts and twelve oxen--one cart for every two of the leaders, and an ox for each one; and they presented them in front of the tabernacle.

4 Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

5 Receive these gifts from them, that they may be used in doing the work of the tent of meeting; and you must give them to the Levites, to every man as his service requires.|

6 So Moses accepted the carts and the oxen and gave them to the Levites.

7 He gave two carts and four oxen to the Gershonites, as their service required;

8 and he gave four carts and eight oxen to the Merarites, as their service required, under the authority of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.

9 But to the Kohathites he gave none, because the service of the holy things, which they carried on their shoulders, was their responsibility.