Numbers 7:5

5 "Accept the gifts from the leaders. I want their gifts to be used in the work at the Tent of Meeting. Give them to the Levites. They need them to do their work."

Numbers 7:5 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 7:5

Take [it] of them
The present of the wagons and oxen, by which it appears that this freewill offering of the princes was according to his mind and will, and what they were influenced and guided to by his Spirit, and was well pleasing in his sight, and acceptable to him:

that they may be to do the service of the tabernacle of the
congregation;
be made use of, and employed in carrying the tabernacle, and the things of it, from place to place, when the Israelites journeyed:

and thou shalt give them to the Levites;
to ease them, whose business it was to bear and carry the several parts of the tabernacle, and the vessels of it:

to every man according to his service;
whether lighter or heavier, for such difference there was in the three divisions of the Levites; and according as their work was, they had more or fewer wagons and oxen given them, as it follows, ( Numbers 7:7 Numbers 7:8 ) .

Numbers 7:5 In-Context

3 They brought gifts to the Lord. They brought six covered carts and 12 oxen. Each leader gave an ox. And every two leaders gave a cart. They put their gifts in front of the holy tent.

4 The LORD spoke to Moses. He said,

5 "Accept the gifts from the leaders. I want their gifts to be used in the work at the Tent of Meeting. Give them to the Levites. They need them to do their work."

6 So Moses gave the carts and the oxen to the Levites.

7 He gave two carts and four oxen to the men from the family of Gershon. They needed them to do their work.