Dual Panel1The heads of the Levite families approached Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun and the heads of the families of the tribes of Israel.
2They came before them at Shiloh in Canaan and said, “The LORD gave his command through Moses that we were to receive towns to live in, together with the common land belonging to them for our cattle.”
3The Israelites, therefore, in obedience to the LORD's command, assigned to the Levites out of their own holdings the following towns with their common land.
4When lots were cast the first fell to the Kohathite family. Those Levites who were descended from Aaron the priest received thirteen towns chosen by lot from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin;
5the rest of the Kohathites were allotted family by family ten towns from the tribes of Ephraim, Dan, and half Manasseh.
6The Gershonites were allotted family by family thirteen towns from the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.
7The Merarites were allotted family by family twelve towns from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun.
8So the Israelites gave the Levites these towns with their common land, allocating them by lot as the LORD had commanded through Moses.
9The Israelites designated the following towns out of the tribes of Judah and Simeon
10for those sons of Aaron who were of the Kohathite families of the Levites, because their lot came out first.
11They gave them Kiriath-arba (Arba was the father of Anak), that is Hebron, in the hill-country of Judah, and the common land round it,
12but they gave the open country near the town, and its hamlets, to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his holding.
13To the sons of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron, a city of refuge for the homicide, Libnah,
14Jattir, Eshtemoa,
15Holon, Debir,
16Ashan, Juttah, and Beth-shemesh, each with its common land: nine towns from these two tribes.
17They also gave towns from the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon, Geba,
18Anathoth, and Almon, each with its common land: four towns.
19The number of the towns with their common land given to the sons of Aaron, the priests, was thirteen.
20The towns which the rest of the Kohathite families of the Levites received by lot were from the tribe of Ephraim.
21They gave them Shechem, a city of refuge for the homicide in the hill-country of Ephraim, Gezer,
22Kibzaim, and Beth-horon, each with its common land: four towns.
23From the tribe of Dan, they gave them Eltekeh, Gibbethon,
24Aijalon, and Gath-rimmon, each with its common land: four towns.
25From the half tribe of Manasseh, they gave them Taanach and Gath-rimmon, each with its common land: two towns.
26The number of the towns belonging to the rest of the Kohathite families with their common land was ten.
27The Gershonite families of the Levites received, out of the share of the half tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan, a city of refuge for the homicide, and Be-ashtaroth, each with its common land: two towns.
28From the tribe of Issachar they received Kishon, Daberath,
29Jarmuth, and En-gannim, each with its common land: four towns.
30From the tribe of Asher they received Mishal, Abdon,
31Helkath, and Rehob, each with its common land: four towns.
32From the tribe of Naphtali they received Kedesh in Galilee, a city of refuge for the homicide, Hammoth-dor, and Kartan, each with its common land: three towns.
33The number of the towns of the Gershonite families with their common land was thirteen.
34From the tribe of Zebulun the rest of the Merarite families of the Levites received Jokneam, Kartah,
35Rimmon, and Nahalal, each with its common land: four towns.
36East of the Jordan at Jericho, from the tribe of Reuben they were given Bezer-in-the-wilderness on the tableland, a city of refuge for the homicide, Jahaz,
37Kedemoth, and Mephaath, each with its common land: four towns.
38From the tribe of Gad they received Ramoth in Gilead, a city of refuge for the homicide, Mahanaim,
39Heshbon, and Jazer, each with its common land: four towns in all.
40Twelve towns in all fell by lot to the rest of the Merarite families of the Levites.
41The towns of the Levites within the Israelite holdings numbered forty-eight in all, with their common land.
42Each town had its common land round it, and it was the same for all of them.
43Thus the LORD gave Israel all the land which he had sworn to give to their forefathers; they occupied it and settled in it.
44The LORD gave them security on every side as he had sworn to their forefathers. Of all their enemies not a man could withstand them; the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hands.
45Not a word of the LORD's promises to the house of Israel went unfulfilled; they all came true.