1. Now on the day that Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, he anointed it and consecrated it with all its furnishings and the altar and all its utensils; he anointed them and consecrated them also.
2. Then the leaders of Israel, the heads of their fathers' households, made an offering (they were the leaders of the tribes; they were the ones who were over the numbered men).
3. When they brought their offering before the Lord, six covered carts and twelve oxen, a cart for every two of the leaders and an ox for each one, then they presented them before the tabernacle.
4. Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
5. "Accept these things from them, that they may be used in the service of the tent of meeting, and you shall give them to the Levites, to each man according to his service."
6. So Moses took the carts and the oxen and gave them to the Levites.
7. Two carts and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gershon, according to their service,
8. and four carts and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
9. But he did not give any to the sons of Kohath because theirs was the service of the holy objects, which they carried on the shoulder.
10. The leaders offered the dedication offering for the altar when it was anointed, so the leaders offered their offering before the altar.
11. Then the Lord said to Moses, "Let them present their offering, one leader each day, for the dedication of the altar."
12. Now the one who presented his offering on the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah;
13. and his offering was one silver dish whose weight was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;
14. one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense;
15. one bull, one ram, one male lamb one year old, for a burnt offering;
16. one male goat for a sin offering;