Joshua 21:1-45
21 Then came near the ancestral heads of the Levites, unto Eleazar the priest, and unto Joshua son of Nun,—and unto the ancestral heads of the tribes of the sons of Israel;
2 and spake unto them in Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying: Yahweh himself commanded, by the hand of Moses, that there should be given unto us cities to dwell in,—with their pasture-lands for our cattle.
3 So the sons of Israel gave unto the Levites out of their own inheritance at the bidding of Yahweh,—these cities with their pasture-lands.
4 And when the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites, then had the sons of Aaron the priest from among the Levites—out of the tribe of Judah and out of the tribe of the Simeonites and out of the tribe of Benjamin—by lot thirteen cities.
5 And the sons of Kohath that remained had—out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim and out of the tribe of Dan and out of the half tribe of Manasseh—by lot ten cities.
6 And the sons of Gershon had—out of 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—by lot thirteen cities.
7 The sons of Merari by 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.
8 So the sons of Israel gave unto the Levites these cities with their pasture lands,—as Yahweh commanded by the hand of Moses by lot.
9 Thus then they gave—out of the tribe of the sons of Judah and out of the tribe of the sons of Simeon—these cities which are mentioned by name.
10 And the sons of Aaron, from among the sons of Kohath, from among the sons of Levi, had them,—because theirs was the first lot;
11 yea there was given unto them the city of Arba, the father of Anak, the same is Hebron in the hill country of Judah,—with the pasture land thereof round about it;
12 whereas the fields of the city and the villages thereof gave they unto Caleb son of Jephunneh as his possession.
13 But unto the sons of Aaron the priest gave they the city of refuge for the manslayer, even Hebron with the pasture lands thereof,—Libnah also with her pasture lands;
14 and Jattir with her pasture land, and Eshtemoa with her pasture land;
15 and Holon with her pasture land, and Debir, with her pasture land;
16 and Ain with her pasture land, and Juttah with her pasture land, Beth-shemesh with her pasture land,—nine cities, out of these two tribes.
17 And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her pasture land,—Geba with her pasture land;
18 Anathoth with her pasture land, and Almon with her pasture land,—four cities.
19 All the cities of the sons of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.
20 And as for the families of the sons of Kohath, the Levites, which remained of the sons of Kohath, the cities of their lot were out of the tribe of Ephraim.
21 So they gave unto them a city of refuge for the manslayer, even Shechem with her pasture land in the hill country of Ephraim,—also Gezer with her pasture land;
22 and Kibzaim with her pasture land, and Beth-horon with her pasture land,—four cities.
23 And out of the tribe of Dan, Elteke with her pasture land,—Gibbethon with her pasture land;
24 Aijalon with her pasture land, Gath-rimmon with her pasture land,—four cities.
25 And out of the half tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with her pasture land, and Gath-rimmon with her pasture land,—two cities.
26 All the cities were ten with their pasture lands: for the families of the sons of Kohath which remained.
27 And the sons of Gershon of the families of the Levites had, out of the half tribe of Manasseh, a city of refuge for the manslayer, even Golan in Bashan with her pasture land, and Be-eshterah with her pasture land,—two cities.
28 And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishion with her pasture land,—Daberath with her pasture land;
29 Jarmuth with her pasture land, En-gannim with her pasture land,—four cities.
30 And out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with her pasture land, Abdon with her pasture land;
31 Helkath with her pasture land, and Rehob with her pasture land,—four cities.
32 And out of the tribe of Naphtali, a city of refuge for the manslayer—even Kedesh in Galilee with her pasture land, and Hammoth-dor with her pasture land, and Kartan with her pasture land,—three cities.
33 All the cities of the Gershonites, by their families, were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.
34 And unto the families of the sons of Merari, the Levites that remained out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with her pasture land,—Kartah with her pasture land;
35 Dimnah with her pasture land, Nahalal with her pasture land,—four cities.
36 And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with her pasture land,—and Jahaz with her pasture land;
37 Kedemoth with her pasture land and Mephaath with her pasture land,—four cities.
38 And out of the tribe of Gad, a city of refuge for the manslayer—even Ramoth in Gilead with her pasture land,—and Mahanaim with her pasture land;
39 Heshbon with her pasture land, Jazer with her pasture land,—in all four cities.
40 All the cities for the sons of Merari by their families, who remained of the families of the Levites, yea their lot was twelve cities.
41 All the cities of the Levites, in the midst of the possession of the sons of Israel, were forty-eight cities with their pasture lands:
42 these cities passed, each severally, with its pasture lands round about it; thus was it with all these cities.
43 So Yahweh gave unto Israel, all the land which he had sworn to give unto their fathers,—and they took possession thereof, and dwelt therein.
44 And Yahweh gave them rest round about, according to all that he had sworn unto their fathers,—and there stood not a man before them of all their enemies; all their enemies did Yahweh deliver into their hand.
45 There failed not a thing, out of all the good things whereof Yahweh had spoken unto the house of Israel,—the whole came to pass.