Joshua 21:11–42

¹¹So ^athey gave them Kiriath-arba (Arba being the ^bfather of Anak), that is, Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with its pasture lands all around it.

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

¹³Thus ^ato the sons of Aaron the priest they gave ^bHebron, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasture lands, ^cLibnah also with its pasture lands,

^14aJattir with its pasture lands, ^bEshtemoa with its pasture lands,

¹⁵¹Holon with its pasture lands, and ^aDebir with its pasture lands,

¹⁶and ¹Ain with its pasture lands, and ^aJuttah with its pasture lands, and ^bBeth-shemesh with its pasture lands; nine cities from these two tribes.

¹⁷From the tribe of Benjamin, ^aGibeon with its pasture lands, ^bGeba with its pasture lands,

¹⁸Anathoth with its pasture lands and ¹Almon with its pasture lands; four cities.

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

²⁰Then the cities from the tribe of Ephraim were allotted to the ^afamilies of the sons of Kohath, the Levites, even to the rest of the sons of Kohath.

²¹And they gave them ^aShechem, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasture lands, in the hill country of Ephraim, and Gezer with its pasture lands,

²²and Kibzaim with its pasture lands, and Beth-horon with its pasture lands; four cities.

²³From the tribe of Dan, Elteke with its pasture lands, Gibbethon with its pasture lands,

²⁴Aijalon with its pasture lands, and Gath-rimmon with its pasture lands; four cities.

²⁵From the half-tribe of Manasseh, they gave Taanach with its pasture lands and Gath-rimmon with its pasture lands; two cities.

²⁶All the cities with their pasture lands for the families of the rest of the sons of Kohath were ten.

^27aNow to the sons of Gershon, one of the families of the Levites, from the half-tribe of Manasseh, they gave Golan in Bashan, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasture lands, and Be-eshterah with its pasture lands; two cities.

²⁸From the tribe of Issachar, they gave Kishion with its pasture lands, Daberath with its pasture lands,

²⁹Jarmuth with its pasture lands, En-gannim with its pasture lands; four cities.

³⁰From the tribe of Asher, they gave Mishal with its pasture lands, Abdon with its pasture lands,

³¹Helkath with its pasture lands and Rehob with its pasture lands; four cities.

³²From the tribe of Naphtali, they gave ^aKedesh in Galilee, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasture lands and Hammoth-dor with its pasture lands and Kartan with its pasture lands; three cities.

³³All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.

³⁴Now to the families of ^athe sons of Merari, the rest of the Levites, they gave from the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with its pasture lands and Kartah with its pasture lands.

³⁵Dimnah with its pasture lands, Nahalal with its pasture lands; four cities.

³⁶From the tribe of Reuben, they gave ^aBezer with its pasture lands and Jahaz with its pasture lands,

³⁷Kedemoth with its pasture lands and Mephaath with its pasture lands; four cities.

³⁸From the tribe of Gad, they gave ^aRamoth in Gilead, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasture lands and ^bMahanaim with its pasture lands,

³⁹Heshbon with its pasture lands, Jazer with its pasture lands; four cities in all.

⁴⁰All these were the cities of the sons of Merari according to their families, the rest of the families of the Levites; and their lot was twelve cities.

^41aAll the cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the sons of Israel were forty-eight cities with their pasture lands.

⁴²These cities each had its surrounding pasture lands; thus it was with all these cities.