3. So the Israelites gave to the Levites out of their own inheritance, at the command of the Lord, these cities and their suburbs.
4. The [first] lot came out for the families of the Kohathites. So those Levites who were descendants of Aaron the priest received by lot from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin thirteen cities.
5. And the rest of the Kohathites received by lot from the families of the tribes of Ephraim, Dan, and the half-tribe of Manasseh ten cities.
6. The Gershonites received by lot from the families of the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan thirteen cities.
7. The Merarites received according to their families from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun twelve cities.
8. The Israelites gave by lot to the Levites these cities with their pasturelands (suburbs), as the Lord commanded through Moses.
9. They gave from the tribes of Judah and Simeon the cities here mentioned by name,
10. Which went to the families of the descendants of Aaron, of the Kohathite branch of the Levites, for the lot fell to them first.
11. They gave them [the city of] Kiriath-arba, Arba being the father of Anak, which city is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with its pasturelands round about it.
12. But the city's fields and villages they gave to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his own.
13. Thus to the descendants of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron, the city of refuge for the slayer, with its pasturelands (suburbs), and together with their suburbs, Libnah,
14. Jattir, Eshtemoa,
15. Holon, Debir,
16. Ain, Juttah, and Beth-shemesh; nine cities, each with its suburbs, out of those two tribes.
17. Out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon, Geba,
18. Anathoth, and Almon; four cities, each with its suburbs.
19. The cities of the sons of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen, with their suburbs.
20. The rest of the Kohathites belonging to the Levitical families were allotted cities out of the tribe of Ephraim.