New American Standard Bible

Joshua 21:9-25 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

9. They gave these cities which are here mentioned by name from the tribe of the sons of Judah and from the tribe of the sons of Simeon;

10. and they were for the sons of Aaron, one of the families of the Kohathites, of the sons of Levi, for the lot was theirs first.

11. Thus they gave them Kiriath-arba, Arba being the father of Anak (that is, Hebron), in the hill country of Judah, with its surrounding pasture lands.

12. But the fields of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as his possession.

13. So to the sons of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasture lands, and Libnah with its pasture lands,

14. and Jattir with its pasture lands and Eshtemoa with its pasture lands,

15. and Holon with its pasture lands and Debir with its pasture lands,

16. and Ain with its pasture lands and Juttah with its pasture lands and Beth-shemesh with its pasture lands; nine cities from these two tribes.

17. From the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its pasture lands, Geba with its pasture lands,

18. Anathoth with its pasture lands and Almon with its pasture lands; four cities.

19. All the cities of the sons of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.

20. Then the cities from the tribe of Ephraim were allotted to the families of the sons of Kohath, the Levites, even to the rest of the sons of Kohath.

21. They gave them Shechem, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasture lands, in the hill country of Ephraim, and Gezer with its pasture lands,

22. and Kibzaim with its pasture lands and Beth-horon with its pasture lands; four cities.

23. From the tribe of Dan, Elteke with its pasture lands, Gibbethon with its pasture lands,

24. Aijalon with its pasture lands, Gath-rimmon with its pasture lands; four cities.

25. From the half-tribe of Manasseh, they allotted Taanach with its pasture lands and Gath-rimmon with its pasture lands; two cities.