Numbers 7:6

6 So Moses took the utility carts and the cattle, and he gave them to the Levites.

Numbers 7:6 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 7:6

And Moses took the wagons and the oxen
Of the princes, as he was directed:

and gave them unto the Levites;
the Gershonites and Merarites; for, as for the Kohathites, they had no part of them, for a reason after given, ( Numbers 7:9 ) .

Numbers 7:6 In-Context

4 Yahweh said to Moses, saying,

5 "{Take them}, and they will be [used] to do the work of the tent of the assembly; and you will give them to the Levites, each {according to his required service}."

6 So Moses took the utility carts and the cattle, and he gave them to the Levites.

7 Two utility carts and four cattle he gave to the descendants of Gershon {according to their required service};

8 and four utility carts and eight cattle he gave to the descendants of Merari {according to their required service}, {under the authority of} Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.