Joshua 21:11–42

^11lAnd they gave them ²Kirjath Arba (Arba was the father of ^mAnak), ⁿwhich is Hebron, in the mountains of Judah, with the common-land surrounding it. ¹²But ^othe fields of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as his possession.

¹³Thus ^pto the children of Aaron the priest they gave ^qHebron with its common-land (a city of refuge for the slayer), ^rLibnah with its common-land, ^14sJattir with its common-land, ^tEshtemoa with its common-land, ^15uHolon with its common-land, ^vDebir with its common-land, ^16wAin with its common-land, ^xJuttah with its common-land, and ^yBeth Shemesh with its common-land: nine cities from those two tribes; ¹⁷and from the tribe of Benjamin, ^zGibeon with its common-land, ^aGeba with its common-land, ¹⁸Anathoth with its common-land, and ^bAlmon with its common-land: four cities. ¹⁹All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their common-lands.

^20cAnd the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites, the rest of the children of Kohath, even they had the cities of their ³lot from the tribe of Ephraim. ²¹For they gave them ^dShechem with its common-land in the mountains of Ephraim (a city of refuge for the slayer), ^eGezer with its common-land, ²²Kibzaim with its common-land, and Beth Horon with its common-land: four cities; ²³and from the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with its common-land, Gibbethon with its common-land, ^24fAijalon with its common-land, and Gath Rimmon with its common-land: four cities; ²⁵and from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Tanach with its common-land and Gath Rimmon with its common-land: two cities. ²⁶All the ten cities with their common-lands were for the rest of the families of the children of Kohath.

^27gAlso to the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, from the other half-tribe of Manasseh, they gave ^hGolan in Bashan with its common-land (a city of refuge for the slayer), and Be Eshterah with its common-land: two cities; ²⁸and from the tribe of Issachar, Kishion with its common-land, Daberath with its common-land, ²⁹Jarmuth with its common-land, and En Gannim with its common-land: four cities; ³⁰and from the tribe of Asher, Mishal with its common-land, Abdon with its common-land, ³¹Helkath with its common-land, and Rehob with its common-land: four cities; ³²and from the tribe of Naphtali, ⁱKedesh in Galilee with its common-land (a city of refuge for the slayer), Hammoth Dor with its common-land, and Kartan with its common-land: three cities. ³³All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their common-lands.

^34jAnd to the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the Levites, from the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with its common-land, Kartah with its common-land, ³⁵Dimnah with its common-land, and Nahalal with its common-land: four cities; ³⁶⁴and from the tribe of Reuben, ^kBezer with its common-land, Jahaz with its common-land, ³⁷Kedemoth with its common-land, and Mephaath with its common-land: four cities; ³⁸and from the tribe of Gad, ^lRamoth in Gilead with its common-land (a city of refuge for the slayer), Mahanaim with its common-land, ³⁹Heshbon with its common-land, and Jazer with its common-land: four cities in all. ⁴⁰So all the cities for the children of Merari according to their families, the rest of the families of the Levites, were by their lot twelve cities.

^41mAll the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty-eight cities with their common-lands. ⁴²Every one of these cities had its common-land surrounding it; thus were all these cities.