3 They brought their offerings before the Lord: six covered wagons and twelve oxen—a wagon for every two chiefs, and an ox for every chief. They brought them near before the dwelling.
4 The Lord said to Moses:
5 Take these from them and use them for service in the meeting tent. Give them to the Levites according to their duties.
6 So Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and he gave them to the Levites.
7 Two wagons and four oxen he gave to the Gershonites for their duty.
8 Four wagons and eight oxen he gave to the Merarites for their duty under the supervision of Ithamar, Aaron the priest’s son.
9 But to the Kohathites he gave nothing because their duty concerned the holy things that had to be carried on the shoulders.