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,