7:1 1 When Moses had completed setting up the tabernacle, 2 he anointed it and consecrated it and all its furnishings, and he anointed and consecrated the altar and all its utensils. 7:2 Then the leaders of Israel, the heads of their clans, 3 made an offering. They were the leaders of the tribes; they were the ones who had been supervising 4 the numbering. 7:3 They brought 5 their offering before the Lord, six covered carts 6 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.
7:4 Then the Lord spoke to Moses: 7:5 “Receive these gifts 7 from them, that they may be 8 used in doing the work 9 of the tent of meeting; and you must give them to the Levites, to every man 10 as his service requires.” 11
7:6 So Moses accepted the carts and the oxen and gave them to the Levites. 7:7 He gave two carts and four oxen to the Gershonites, as their service required; 7:8 and he gave four carts and eight oxen to the Merarites, as their service required, under the authority 12 of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest. 7:9 But to the Kohathites he gave none, because the service of the holy things, which they carried 13 on their shoulders, was their responsibility. 14