1. Then the heads of the fathers of the Levites came near unto Eleazar the priest and unto Joshua, the son of Nun, and unto the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the sons of Israel;
2. and they spoke unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, The Lord commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in with the suburbs thereof for our beasts.
3. Then the sons of Israel gave unto the Levites out of their possessions, according to the word of the Lord, these cities and their suburbs.
4. And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites; and the sons of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, had by lot out of the tribe of Judah and out of the tribe of Simeon and out of the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities.
5. And the rest of the sons of Kohath had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim and out of the tribe of Dan and out of the half tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.
6. And the sons of Gershon had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar and out of the tribe of Asher and out of the tribe of Naphtali and out of the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
7. The sons of Merari by their families had out of the tribe of Reuben and out of the tribe of Gad and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
8. Thus the sons of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses.
9. And they gave out of the tribe of the sons of Judah and out of the tribe of the sons of Simeon these cities which are here mentioned by name;
10. and the first lot was of the sons of Aaron, of the family of Kohath, of the sons of Levi;
11. and they gave them the city of Arba of the father of Anak, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah, with its suburbs round about.
12. But the fields of the city and the villages thereof, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.
13. Thus they gave to the sons of Aaron the priest Hebron with its suburbs, to be a city of refuge for manslayers and Libnah with its suburbs
14. and Jattir with its suburbs and Eshtemoa with its suburbs
15. and Holon with its suburbs and Debir with its suburbs
16. and Ain with its suburbs and Juttah with its suburbs and Bethshemesh with its suburbs: nine cities out of those two tribes.
17. And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its suburbs, Geba with its suburbs,
18. Anathoth with its suburbs, and Almon with its suburbs: four cities.
19. All these cities of the priests, the sons of Aaron, are thirteen cities with their suburbs.