Joshua 21

And the heads of the fathers of the Levites came near to Eleazar the priest and to Joshua, the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the sons of Israel.

And they spoke to them in Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, “God commanded by the hand of Moses to give to us cities to dwell in, with their pasturelands for our livestock.” \*

And the sons of Israel gave to the Levites from their inheritance these cities and their pasturelands, upon the mouth of God.

And the lot came out for the clans of the Kohathite. And for the sons of Aaron the priest, from the Levites, there were 13 cities by the lot from the tribe of Judah and from the tribe of the Simeonite and from the tribe of Benjamin. \*

And for the remaining sons of Kohath, ten cities by the lot from the clans of the tribe of Ephraim and from the tribe of Dan and from half of the tribe of Manasseh. \*

And for the sons of Gershon, 13 cities by the lot from the clans of the tribe of Issachar and from the tribe of Asher and from the tribe of Naphtali and from the half of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan. \*

For the sons of Merari according to their clans, 12 cities from the tribe of Reuben and from the tribe of Gad and from the tribe of Zebulun.

And the sons of Israel gave these cities and their pasturelands to the Levites by the lot, just as God had commanded by the hand of Moses. \*

And from the tribe of the sons of Judah and from the tribe of the sons of Simeon they gave these cities, which one calls them by name.

And they were for the sons of Aaron from the clans of the Kohathite from the sons of Levi, because the first lot was for them. \*

And they gave to them Kiriath Arba (the father of the Anak, it is Hebron) in the hill country of Judah and its pasturelands around it.

But the field of the city and its villages they had given to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, as his possession. \*

And to the sons of Aaron the priest they gave a city of refuge of one having killed, Hebron and its pasturelands, and Libnah and its pasturelands

and Jattir and its pasturelands and Eshtemoa and its pasturelands \*

and Holon and its pasturelands and Debir and its pasturelands

and Ain and its pasturelands and Juttah and its pasturelands and Beth Shemesh and its pasturelands: nine cities from the two of these tribes. \*

And from the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon and its pasturelands, Geba and its pasturelands,

Anathoth and its pasturelands, and Almon and its pasturelands: four cities.

All of the cities of the sons of Aaron, the priests, {were} 13 cities and their pasturelands. \*

And for the clans of the sons of Kohath, the Levites, the remaining ones from the sons of Kohath, the cities of their lot {were} from the tribe of Ephraim.

And they gave to them a city of refuge of one having killed, Shechem and its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, and Gezer and its pasturelands

and Kibzaim and its pasturelands and Beth Horon and its pasturelands: four cities. \*

And from the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh and its pasturelands, Gibbethon and its pasturelands,

Aijalon and its pasturelands, Gath Rimmon and its pasturelands: four cities. \*

And from half of the tribe of Manasseh, Taanach and its pasturelands and Gath Rimmon and its pasturelands: two cities.

All of the ten cities and their pasturelands {were} for the remaining clans of the sons of Kohath. \*

And for the sons of Gershon from the clans of the Levites, from half of the tribe of Manasseh, a city of refuge of one having killed, Golan in Bashan and its pasturelands, and Be Eshterah and its pasturelands: two cities. \*

And from the tribe of Issachar, Kishion and its pasturelands, Daberath and its pasturelands,

Jarmuth and its pasturelands, En Gannim and its pasturelands: four cities. \*

And from the tribe of Asher, Mishal and its pasturelands, Abdon and its pasturelands,

Helkath and its pasturelands, and Rehob and its pasturelands: four cities. \*

And from the tribe of Naphtali, a city of refuge of one having killed, Kedesh in Galilee and its pasturelands, and Hammoth Dor and its pasturelands and Kartan and its pasturelands: three cities.

All of the cities of the Gershonite according to their clans {were} 13 cities and their pasturelands. \*

And for the clans of the sons of Merari, the remaining Levites, from the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam and its pasturelands, Kartah and its pasturelands,

Dimnah and its pasturelands, Nahalal and its pasturelands: four cities. \*

And from the tribe of Reuben, Bezer and its pasturelands and Jahaz and its pasturelands,

Kedemoth and its pasturelands and Mephaath and its pasturelands: four cities. \*

And from the tribe of Gad, a city of refuge of one having killed, Ramoth in Gilead and its pasturelands, and Mahanaim and its pasturelands,

Heshbon and its pasturelands, Jazer and its pasturelands: all of the cities {were} four.

All of the cities for the sons of Merari according to their clans, the remaining ones from the clans of the Levites, were 12 cities {by} their lot. \*

All of the cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the sons of Israel {were} 48 cities and their pasturelands.

These cities were city, city, and its pasturelands around it, thus for all of these cities. \*

And God gave to Israel all of the land that he had sworn to give to their fathers. And they possessed it and dwelled in it.

And God gave rest to them from all around, according to all that he had sworn to their fathers. And a man did not stand against their faces from all of their enemies. God gave all of their enemies into their hand.

A word did not fall from every good word that God had spoken to the house of Israel. The whole came. \*