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.
10. The leaders offered gifts for the dedication of the altar when it was anointed. And the leaders presented their offering before the altar.