33. Their fellow Levites were appointed for all the avodah of the tabernacle of the House of God.
34. But Aaron and his sons were the ones presenting offerings on the altar of burnt offering and on the altar of incense, for all the service of the Holy of Holies and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.
35. Now these are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phineas his son, Abishua his son,
36. Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son,
37. Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,
38. Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son.
39. Now these are their dwelling places according to their encampments in their territories. To Aaron’s sons of the Kohathite families (for theirs was the first lot),
40. to them they assigned Hebron in the land of Judah, and the open land around it;
41. but the fields of the city and the villages, they gave to Caleb son of Jephunneh.
42. To sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge: Hebron, also Libnah with its open land, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its open land,
43. Hilen with its open land, Debir with its open land,
44. Ashan with its open land, and Beth-shemesh with its open land.
45. From the tribe of Benjamin: Geba with its open land, and Alemeth with its open land, and Anathoth with its open land. They had 13 cities in all among their families.
46. To the rest of the sons of Kohath ten cities were assigned by lot from the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh.
47. To the sons of Gershom, according to their families, 13 cities were assigned from the tribe of Issachar, from the tribe of Asher, from tribe of Naphtali and from the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.
48. To the sons of Merari 12 cities were assigned by lot, according to their families, from the tribe of Reuben, from the tribe of Gad and from the tribe of Zebulun.
49. So Bnei-Yisrael gave to the Levites the cities with their open land.
50. They also assigned by lot from the tribe of the children of Judah, from the tribe of the children of Simeon, and from the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities that were mentioned by name.