Numbers 7:7-9

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁷ Two wagons and four oxen he gave to the Gershonites, according to their service; ⁸ and four wagons and eight oxen he gave to the Merarites, according to their service, under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest. ⁹ But to the Kohathites he gave none, because they were charged with the care of the holy things that had to be carried on the shoulders.