Numbers 7:1-9

Offerings of the Leaders

Now it happened on ^athe day that Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, that he ^banointed it and set it apart as holy with all its furnishings and the altar and all its utensils; he anointed them and set them apart as holy. 2 Then ^athe leaders of Israel, the heads of their fathers’ households, ^bbrought an offering near (they were the leaders of the tribes; they were the ones who ¹were over the ²numbered men). 3 And they brought their offering before Yahweh, six ^acovered carts and twelve oxen, a cart for every two of the leaders and an ox for each one, and they brought them near before the tabernacle. 4 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 5 “Accept these things from them, that they may be ¹used 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 ^atheir service, 8 and four carts and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari, according to ^atheir service, under the ¹direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. 9 But he did not give any to the sons of Kohath because theirs was ^athe service of the holy objects, which they carried on the shoulder.

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