3. with gifts for the Lord. They brought six strong carts and twelve oxen—one ox from each leader and a cart from every two.
4. The Lord said to Moses,
5. “Accept these gifts, so the Levites can use them here at the sacred tent for carrying the sacred things.”
6. Then Moses took the carts and oxen and gave them to the Levites,
7-8. who were under the leadership of Ithamar son of Aaron. Moses gave two carts and four oxen to the Gershonites for their work, and four carts and eight oxen to the Merarites for their work.
10. On the day the altar was dedicated, the twelve leaders brought offerings for its dedication.
11. The Lord said to Moses, “Each day one leader is to give his offering for the dedication.”
84-88. And so when the altar was dedicated to the Lord, these twelve leaders brought the following gifts:twelve silver bowls and twelve silver sprinkling bowls, weighing a total of almost twenty-eight kilogrammes, according to the official standards;twelve gold dishes filled with incense and weighing over a kilogramme;twelve bulls, twelve full-grown rams, and twelve rams a year old as sacrifices to please the Lord, along with the proper grain sacrifices;twelve goats as sacrifices for sin;and twenty-four bulls, sixty full-grown rams, sixty goats, and sixty rams a year old as sacrifices to ask the Lord's blessing.