5. The remaining descendants of Kohath received an allotment of ten cities from the clans of the tribes of Ephraim, Dan, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
6. The descendants of Gershon received an allotment of thirteen cities from the clans of the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.
7. Descendants of Merari by their clans received an allotment of twelve cities from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun.
8. The children of Israel allotted the Levites these cities and their grazing lands, as the Lord commanded through Moses.
9. From the tribes of Judah and Simeon they assigned the following cities with these names.
10. They were assigned to the descendants of Aaron, to the clans of the Kohathites of the tribe of Levi, for theirs was the first lot.
11. They assigned them Kiriath Arba (Arba was the father of Anak), which is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, and the grazing lands around it.
12. (Now they had assigned the city’s fields and its surrounding villages to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his property.)
13. So to the descendants of Aaron the priest they assigned Hebron (a refuge city for people who committed manslaughter), Libnah with its pastures,
14. Jattir, Eshtemoa,
15. Holon, Debir,
16. Ain, Juttah, and Beth Shemesh, together with the grazing lands of each: nine cities from these two tribes.
17. From the tribe of Benjamin they assigned Gibeon, Geba,