1And the heads of the families of the sons of Levi came near to Eleazar the priest and to Joshua the son of Nun and to the heads of the fathers’ houses from the tribes of Israel
2And they said to them in Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in and the pasturelands for our livestock
3And the sons of Israel gave to the Levites, in the distribution by lot, by command of the Lord, the cities and their pasturelands
4And the lot came out for the people of Kohath, and it came to the sons of Aaron, the priests, the Levites, from the tribe of Judah and from the tribe of Simeon and from the tribe of Benjamin, by lot, thirteen cities.
5And to the sons of Kohath who were left from the tribe of Ephraim and from the tribe of Dan and from the half-tribe of Manasseh, by lot, ten cities.
6And to the sons of Gershon, from the tribe of Issachar and from the tribe of Asher and from the tribe of Naphtali and from half of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
7And to the sons of Merari, according to their clans, from the tribe of Reuben and from the tribe of Gad and from the tribe of Zebulun, by lot, twelve cities
8And the sons of Israel gave to the Levites the cities and their surrounding lands, as the Lord commanded Moses, by lot.
9And the tribe of the sons of Judah and the tribe of the sons of Simeon and from the tribe of the sons of Benjamin gave the cities, and they were called by name.
10to the sons of Aaron, from the clan of Kohath, from the sons of Levi, because to these the lot fell
11And he gave them Kiriatharba, the metropolis of the Anakim; this is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, and the surrounding pasturelands around it
12And the fields of the city and its villages Joshua gave to the sons of Caleb son of Jephunneh as a possession
13And to the sons of Aaron, the city of refuge for the manslayer: Hebron and its set-apart fields, and Lemna and its set-apart fields that were beside it.
14and Ailom and the places set apart for it, and Teme and the places set apart for it
15and Gella and its separated places, and Debir and its separated places
16and Asa and its pasturelands and Tanu and its pasturelands and Baithsamus and its pasturelands, nine cities from these two tribes
17And from the tribe of Benjamin, Gabaon and its set-apart places, and Gatheth and its set-apart places
18and Anathoth and its pasture lands and Gamala and its pasture lands, four cities
19All the cities of the sons of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen.
20And for the clans of the sons of Kohath, the Levites, those remaining from the sons of Kohath, there was a city from the borders of their inheritance from the tribe of Ephraim
21And they gave them the city of refuge for the manslayer, Shechem, and its suburbs, and Gazara and its suburbs, and its suburbs around it and its suburbs
22and Kabsaim and its separated places toward it and Upper Bethoron and its separated places to it, four cities
23And from the tribe of Dan, Elkothaim and its separated places, and Gethadan and its separated places
24and Ailon and its separated things and Getheremmon and its separated things, four cities
25and from the half of the tribe of Manasseh, Tanach and its pasturelands and Jebatha and its pasturelands, two cities
26All the cities, ten, and the pasturelands beside them for the clans of the sons of Kohath who remained behind.
27And to the sons of Gerson, the Levites, from the half of the tribe of Manasseh, the cities set apart for the slayers: Golan in Bashan, and its set-apart places, and Beosor, and its set-apart places, two cities.
28and from the tribe of Issachar, Kishon and its set-apart lands, and Dabbah and its set-apart lands
29and Remmath and its pasturelands and the Spring of Letters and its pasturelands, four cities
30And out of the tribe of Asher, Bessalan and its pasturelands, and Dabbon and its pasturelands
31and Helkath and its pasturelands, and Rehob and its pasturelands, four cities
32And from the tribe of Naphtali, the city of refuge for the manslayer, Kedesh in Galilee and its pasturelands, and Hammoth and its pasturelands, and Kartan and its pasturelands, three cities.
33All the cities of Gedsōn according to their clans, thirteen cities.
34and to the people of the sons of Merari, to the Levites, the rest, from the tribe of the sons of Zebulun, Maan and its pasturelands, and Kadesh and its pasturelands
35and Demna and its outskirts and Sella and its outskirts, four cities
36and beyond the Jordan, that by Jericho, from the tribe of Reuben, the city, the refuge for the one who has slain, Bezor in the wilderness of Mishor, and its pasture lands, and Jazer and its pasture lands
37and Dekmon and its outskirts and Mafa and its outskirts, four cities
38and from the tribe of Gad the city of refuge for the manslayer, Ramoth in Gilead, and its surrounding lands, and Kamon, and its surrounding lands
39and Heshbon and its pasturelands and Jazer and its pasturelands, all the cities four
40All the cities for the sons of Merari according to their clans, of those remaining from the tribe of Levi, were twelve cities and their boundaries.
41All the cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the sons of Israel were forty-eight cities and their pasturelands.
42Around these cities, city and the pasture lands around the city, for all these cities
43And the Lord gave to Israel all the land which he swore to give to their fathers, and they inherited it and dwelt in it.
44And the Lord gave them rest round about, according as he swore to their fathers; no one stood up before them from all their enemies; the Lord gave all their enemies into their hands.
45Not one of all the good words which the Lord spoke to the sons of Israel failed; all came to pass.