Numbers 7:1-9

1Now on 1the day that Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, he 2anointed it and consecrated it with all its furnishings and the altar and all its utensils; he anointed them and consecrated them also. 2Then 3the leaders of Israel, the heads of their fathers’ households, 4made an offering (they were the leaders of the tribes; they were the ones who 5were over the 6numbered men). 3When they brought their offering before the Lord, six 7covered 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. 4Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 5“Accept these things from them, that they may be 8used in the service of the tent of meeting, and you shall give them to the Levites, to each man according to his service.” 6So Moses took the carts and the oxen and gave them to the Levites. 7Two carts and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gershon, according to 9their service, 8and four carts and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari, according to 10their service, under the 11direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. 9But he did not give any to the sons of Kohath because theirs was 12the service of the holy objects, which they carried on the shoulder.