1 Then the heads of fathers’ houses of
the Levites came near to Eleazar the priest,
and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the
heads of fathers’ houses of the tribes of the
children of Israel.

2 They spoke to them at Shiloh inthe land
of Canaan, saying, “Yahweh commanded
through Moses to give us cities to dwell in,
with their pasture lands for our livestock.”

3 The children of Israel gave to the
Levites out of their inheritance, according
to the commandment of Yahweh, these
cities with their pasture lands.

4 The lot came out for the families of
the Kohathites. The children of Aaron the
priest, who were of the Levites, had thirteen cities by lot out of the tribe of Judah,
out of the tribe of the Simeonites, and out
of the tribe of Benjamin.

5 The rest of the children of Kohath had
ten cities by lot out of the families of the
tribe of Ephraim, out of the tribe of Dan,
and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh.

6 The children of Gershon had thirteen
cities by lot out of the families of the tribe
of Issachar, out of the tribe of Asher, out of
the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the halftribe of Manasseh in Bashan.

7 The children of Merari according to
their families had twelve cities out of the
tribe of Reuben, out ofthe tribe of Gad, and
out of the tribe of Zebulun.

8 The children of Israel gave these cities
with their pasture lands by lot to the
Levites, as Yahweh commanded by Moses.

9 They gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the
children of Simeon, these cities which are
mentioned by name:

10 and they were for the children of
Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites,
who were ofthe children of Levi; for theirs
was the first lot.

11 They gave them Kiriath Arba, named
after the father of Anak (also called Hebron), in the hill country of Judah, with its
pasture lands around it.

12 But they gave the fields of the city and
its villages to Caleb the son of Jephunneh
for his possession.

13 To the children of Aaron the priest
they gave Hebron with its pasture lands,
the city of refuge for the man slayer, Libnah with its pasture lands,

14 Jattir with its pasture lands, Eshtemoa
with its pasture lands,

15 Holon with its pasture lands, Debir
with its pasture lands,

16 Ain with its pasture lands, Juttah with
its pasture lands, and Beth Shemesh with
its pasture lands: nine cities out of those
two tribes.

17 Out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon
with its pasture lands, Geba with its pasture lands,

18 Anathoth with its pasture lands, and
Almon with its pasture lands: four cities.

19 All the cities of the children of Aaron,
the priests, were thirteen cities with their
pasture lands.

20 The families of the children of Kohath,
the Levites, even the rest of the children of
Kohath, had the cities of their lot out of the
tribe of Ephraim.

21 They gave them Shechem with its pasture lands in the hill country of Ephraim,
the city of refuge for the man slayer, and
Gezer with its pasture lands,

22 Kibzaim with its pasture lands, and
Beth Horon with its pasture lands: four
cities.