Then came near the heads of fathers- {cf15i houses} of the Levites unto Eleazar the priest, and unto Joshua the son of Nun, and unto the heads of fathers- {cf15i houses} of the tribes of the children of Israel;
and they spake 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 cattle.
And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites: and the children of Aaron the priest, which were of the Levites, had by lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of the Simeonites, and out of the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities.
And the rest of the children 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.
And the children 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.
The children of Merari according to 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.
And 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 {cf15i here} mentioned by name:
And they gave them Kiriath-arba, {cf15i which Arba was} the father of Anak, (the same is Hebron,) in the hill country of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round about it.
And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites, even the rest of the children of Kohath, they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.
And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the half tribe of Manasseh {cf15i they gave} Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer; and Be-eshterah with her suburbs; two cities.
And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with her suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Hammoth-dor with her suburbs, and Kartan with her suburbs; three cities.
And unto the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with her suburbs, and Kartah with her suburbs,
All {cf15i these were} the cities of the children of Merari according to their families, even the rest of the families of the Levites; and their lot was twelve cities.
And the LORD gave them rest round about, according to all that he sware unto their fathers: and there stood not a man of all their enemies before them; the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand.