8. The children of Israel gave these cities with their pasture lands by lot to the Levites, as the Lord commanded by Moses.
9. They gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are mentioned by name:
10. and they were for the children of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi; for theirs was the first lot.
11. They gave them Kiriath Arba, named after the father of Anak (also called Hebron), in the hill country of Judah, with its pasture lands around it.
12. But they gave the fields of the city and its villages to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.
13. To the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the man slayer, Libnah with its pasture lands,
14. Jattir with its pasture lands, Eshtemoa with its pasture lands,
15. Holon with its pasture lands, Debir with its pasture lands,
16. Ain with its pasture lands, Juttah with its pasture lands, and Beth Shemesh with its pasture lands: nine cities out of those two tribes.
17. Out of 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.