Laravel limit records with pagination

I'm using Laravel 5.2 and when working with pagination, I cannot limit the result. When I try with $query->take($x), the result is x records, but when I try with $query->take($x)->paginate(5), it give me all records with 5 records per page. Could anyone work with laravel pagination could give a hint to resolve that problem? Thank you so much!

via Chebli Mohamed