¹Then the paternal heads of the Levites approached Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun, and the paternal heads of the tribes of the sons of Israel. ²And they spoke to them in Shiloh in the land of Canaan, and they said, “The Lord gave commandment through the intermediacy of Moses to give us cities to inhabit with their pasture lands for our cattle.” ³So the sons of Israel gave the Levites their due from their own inheritance, according to the instruction of the Lord – these cities with their pasture lands. ⁴And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites, and the sons of Aaron the priest – members of the Levites – had from the tribe of Judah and from the tribe of the Simeonites and from the tribe of Benjamin, by lot, thirteen cities. ⁵And to the sons of Kohath who remained were given – from the families of the tribe of Ephraim and from the tribe of Dan and from the half-tribe of Manasseh – ten cities by lot. ⁶And to the sons of Gershon were given – from the families of the tribe of Issachar and from the tribe of Asher and from the tribe of Naphtali, and from the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan – thirteen cities by lot. ⁷To the sons of Merari, according to their families were given – from the tribe of Reuben and from the tribe of Gad and from the tribe of Zebulun – twelve cities. ⁸So the sons of Israel gave the Levites these cities with their pasture lands, as the Lord had commanded through the intermediacy of Moses, by lot. ⁹And from the tribe of the sons of Judah and from the tribe of the sons of Simeon, they gave these cities which he specified by name. ¹⁰And the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, of the sons of Levi, had what follows, because they had the first lot, ¹¹and they were given Kiriath-Arba (Arba being the father of Anak), that is Hebron, in the mountain range of Judah, and its pasture lands around it, ¹²but the fields of the city and its courtyards were given to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as his possession. ¹³So they gave the sons of Aaron the priest as a city of refuge for the manslayer Hebron and its pasture lands, and Libnah and its pasture lands, ¹⁴and Jattir and its pasture lands, and Eshtemoa and its pasture lands, ¹⁵and Holon and its pasture lands, and Debir and its pasture lands, ¹⁶and Ain and its pasture lands, and Juttah and its pasture lands, and Beth-Shemesh and its pasture lands – nine cities from these two tribes. ¹⁷And from the tribe of Benjamin: Gibeon and its pasture lands, Geba and its pasture lands, ¹⁸Anathoth and its pasture lands and Almon and its pasture lands – four cities. ¹⁹All the cities of the sons of Aaron, the priests, came to thirteen cities with their pasture lands. ²⁰And the families of the sons of Kohath – the remaining Levites of Kohath's sons – had cities by their lot from the tribe of Ephraim. ²¹And they gave them as a city of refuge for the manslayer Shechem and its pasture lands at Mount Ephraim, and Gezer and its pasture lands, ²²and Kibzaim and its pasture lands, and Beth-Horon and its pasture lands – four cities. ²³And from the tribe of Dan: Eltekeh and its pasture lands, Gibbethon and its pasture lands, ²⁴Aijalon and its pasture lands, and Gath-Rimmon and its pasture lands – four cities. ²⁵And from the half-tribe of Manasseh: Taanach and its pasture lands, and Gath-Rimmon and its pasture lands – two cities. ²⁶All these cities amount to ten, with their pasture lands, given to the families of the sons of Kohath who remained. ²⁷And to the sons of Gershon from the families of the Levites, they gave from the half-tribe of Manasseh, as a city of refuge for the manslayer, Golan in Bashan and its pasture lands, and Beeshterah and its pasture lands – two cities – ²⁸and from the tribe of Issachar: Kishion and its pasture lands, Daberath and its pasture lands, ²⁹Jarmuth and its pasture lands, En-Gannim and its pasture lands – four cities. ³⁰And from the tribe of Asher: Mishal and its pasture lands, Abdon and its pasture lands, ³¹Helkath and its pasture lands, and Rehob and its pasture lands – four cities. ³²And from the tribe of Naphtali, as a city of refuge for the manslayer: Kedesh in Galilee and its pasture lands, and Hammoth-Dor and its pasture lands, and Kartan and its pasture lands – three cities. ³³All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families amount to thirteen cities with their pasture lands. ³⁴And to the families of the sons of Merari – the remaining Levites – they gave from the tribe of Zebulun Jokneam and its pasture lands, Kartah and its pasture lands, ³⁵Dimnah and its pasture lands, Nahalal and its pasture lands – four cities. ³⁶And from the tribe of Reuben: Bezer and its pasture lands, and Jahzah and its pasture lands, ³⁷Kedemoth and its pasture lands, and Mephaath and its pasture lands – four cities. ³⁸And from the tribe of Gad, as a city of refuge for the manslayer: Ramoth in Gilead and its pasture lands, and Mahanaim and its pasture lands, ³⁹Heshbon and its pasture lands, Jazer and its pasture lands – all the cities amount to four. ⁴⁰All the cities of the sons of Merari according to their families – those who remained from the families of the Levites – had as their lot twelve cities. ⁴¹All the cities of the Levites among the possessions of the sons of Israel amounted to forty-eight cities with their pasture lands. ⁴²These cities were city by city with their pasture lands around each – so it was for all these cities. ⁴³And the Lord gave Israel all the land about which he had sworn that he would give it to their fathers, and they took possession of it, and they dwelt in it. ⁴⁴And the Lord gave them rest round about, according to everything he had sworn to their fathers, and no man could stand before them from any of their enemies; the Lord delivered all their enemies into their hand. ⁴⁵And not a word failed of all the good words which the Lord had spoken to the house of Israel – it all came about.