Joshua 21:1-19

1Then the heads of fathers’ households of 1the Levites approached Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of fathers’ households of the tribes of the sons of Israel. 2And they spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, “2The Lord commanded 3through Moses to give us cities to live in, with their pasture lands for our cattle.” 3So the sons of Israel gave the Levites from their inheritance these cities with their pasture lands, in accordance with the 4command of the Lord. 4Then the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites. And to the sons of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, thirteen cities were given by lot from the tribe of Judah, from the tribe of the Simeonites, and from the tribe of Benjamin.

5And to the rest of the sons of Kohath ten cities were given by lot from the families of the tribe of Ephraim, from the tribe of Dan, and from the half-tribe of Manasseh.

6And to the sons of Gershon thirteen cities were given by lot from the families of the tribe of Issachar, from the tribe of Asher, from the tribe of Naphtali, and from the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.

7To the sons of Merari according to their families twelve cities were given from the tribe of Reuben, from the tribe of Gad, and from the tribe of Zebulun.

8Now the 5sons of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities with their pasture lands, as the Lord had commanded 6through Moses.

9They gave these cities which are mentioned here by name from the tribe of the sons of Judah and from the tribe of the sons of Simeon; 10and they were for the sons of Aaron, one of the families of the Kohathites, of the sons of Levi, because the lot was theirs first. 11So 7they gave them Kiriath-arba (Arba being the 8father of Anak), that is, Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with its surrounding pasture lands. 12But the fields of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as his possession.

13So 9to the sons of Aaron the priest they gave 10Hebron, the city of refuge for the one who commits manslaughter, with its pasture lands, 11Libnah with its pasture lands, 1412Jattir with its pasture lands, 13Eshtemoa with its pasture lands, 1514Holon with its pasture lands, 15Debir with its pasture lands, 1616Ain with its pasture lands, 17Juttah with its pasture lands, and 18Beth-shemesh with its pasture lands; nine cities from these two tribes. 17From the tribe of Benjamin, 19Gibeon with its pasture lands, 20Geba with its pasture lands, 18Anathoth with its pasture lands, and 21Almon with its pasture lands; four cities. 19All the cities of the sons of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.