The Distribution of the Gifts

4  Then the Lord spoke to Moses: 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.