Towns Are Given to the Levites
1The leaders of the Levite family groups approached Eleazar the priest and Joshua, the son of Nun. They also approached the leaders of the family groups of Israel’s other tribes. 2They went to all of them at Shiloh in Canaan. They said to them, “Give us towns to live in. Also give us grasslands for our livestock. That’s what the Lord commanded through Moses.”
3So the Israelites gave the Levites towns and grasslands out of their own shares of land. They did what the Lord had commanded. Here are the towns the Levites were given.
4The first lot drawn out was for the people of Kohath, according to their family groups. Some of the Levites came from the family line of Aaron the priest. They were given 13 towns from the tribes of Judah, Simeon and Benjamin.
5The rest of Kohath’s family groups were given ten towns. Those towns were from the family groups of the tribes of Ephraim and Dan and half of the tribe of Manasseh.
6The family groups of Gershon were given 13 towns. Those towns were from the family groups of the tribes of Issachar, Asher and Naphtali and half of the tribe of Manasseh. That part of Manasseh was in the land of Bashan.
7The family groups of Merari received 12 towns from the tribes of Reuben, Gad and Zebulun. Each family group received its share.
8So the Israelites gave those towns and their grasslands to the Levites. They did what the Lord had commanded through Moses.
9Some towns were given from the territories of the tribes of Judah and Simeon. 10The Israelites gave them to the members of the family line of Aaron. The towns were given to the family groups of Kohath. They were Levites. The first lot drawn out was for them. Here are the towns the family groups of Kohath were given.
11The Israelites gave them Kiriath Arba and the grasslands around it. Kiriath Arba is also called Hebron. It’s in the hill country of Judah. Anak came from the family line of Arba. 12But Israel had already given away the fields and villages around the city. They had given them to Caleb as his share. Caleb was the son of Jephunneh. 13So they gave Hebron to the members of the family line of Aaron the priest. Hebron was a city where anyone charged with murder could go for safety. They also gave them Libnah, 14Jattir, Eshtemoa, 15Holon, Debir, 16Ain, Juttah and Beth Shemesh. They gave those towns and their grasslands to the family groups of Kohath. The total number of towns from the tribes of Judah and Simeon came to nine.
17The Israelites gave some towns from the tribe of Benjamin to the family groups of Kohath.
The towns were Gibeon, Geba, 18Anathoth and Almon. The total number of these towns and their grasslands came to four.
19So the total number of towns and their grasslands given to the priests in Aaron’s family line came to 13.
20There were other family groups of Kohath among the Levites. They were given towns from the tribe of Ephraim. Here are the towns those other family groups of Kohath were given.
21In the hill country of Ephraim they were given
Shechem. It was a city where anyone charged with murder could go for safety. They were also given Gezer, 22Kibzaim and Beth Horon. The total number of these towns and their grasslands came to four.
23From the tribe of Dan they received
Eltekeh, Gibbethon, 24Aijalon and Gath Rimmon. The total number of these towns and their grasslands came to four.
25From half of the tribe of Manasseh they received
Taanach and Gath Rimmon. The total number of these towns and their grasslands came to two.
26So all these ten towns and their grasslands were given to the other family groups of Kohath.
27Here are the towns given to the family groups of Gershon among the Levites.
From half of the tribe of Manasseh they received
Golan in the land of Bashan. Golan was a city where anyone charged with murder could go for safety. They also received Be Eshterah. The total number of these towns and their grasslands came to two.
28From the tribe of Issachar they received
Kishion, Daberath, 29Jarmuth and En Gannim. The total number of these towns and their grasslands came to four.
30From the tribe of Asher they received
Mishal, Abdon, 31Helkath and Rehob. The total number of these towns and their grasslands came to four.
32From the tribe of Naphtali they received
Kedesh in Galilee. Kedesh was a city where anyone charged with murder could go for safety. They also received Hammoth Dor and Kartan. The total number of these towns and their grasslands came to three.
33So the total number of towns and their grasslands given to the family groups of Gershon came to 13.
34The rest of the Levites were from the family groups of Merari. Here are the towns they were given.
From the tribe of Zebulun they received
Jokneam, Kartah, 35Dimnah and Nahalal. The total number of these towns and their grasslands came to four.
36From the tribe of Reuben they received
Bezer, Jahaz, 37Kedemoth and Mephaath. The total number of these towns and their grasslands came to four.
38From the tribe of Gad they received
Ramoth in Gilead. Ramoth was a city where anyone charged with murder could go for safety. They also received Mahanaim, 39Heshbon and Jazer. The total number of these towns and their grasslands came to four.
40So the total number of towns given to the family groups of Merari came to 12. That concludes the list of towns the rest of the Levites received.
41The total number of Levite towns and their grasslands in the territory given to Israel came to 48. 42Each of those towns had grasslands around it. That was true of all of them.
43So the Lord gave Israel all the land he had promised to give to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And Israel took it over. Then they made their homes there. 44The Lord gave them peace and rest on every side. He had promised their people of long ago that he would do that. Not one of Israel’s enemies was able to fight against them and win. The Lord handed all their enemies over to them. 45The Lord kept all the good promises he had made to the Israelites. Every one of them came true.
分给利未人的城邑
1-2利未人的众族长到迦南的示罗见祭司以利亚撒、嫩的儿子约书亚和以色列各支派的首领，说：“耶和华借着摩西曾吩咐你们把一些城邑分给我们住，让我们可以在城郊牧养牲畜。” 3以色列人便按照耶和华的吩咐，从他们的产业中把以下的城邑及城郊分给了利未人。
4利未人哥辖宗族中大祭司亚伦的子孙从犹大、西缅和便雅悯支派的产业中抽签得了十三座城。 5哥辖宗族中其他的人也从以法莲、但和玛拿西半个支派的产业中抽签得了十座城。 6革顺的子孙从以萨迦、亚设、拿弗他利和在巴珊的玛拿西半个支派的产业中抽签得了十三座城。 7米拉利的子孙按宗族从吕便、迦得和西布伦支派的产业中抽签得了十二座城。
8以色列人照耶和华对摩西的吩咐，把这些城邑及其草场用抽签的方式分给利未人。
9-10利未支派哥辖宗族中亚伦的子孙得到第一签，以下是从犹大和西缅两支派的产业中抽出来分给他们的土地： 11犹大山区的基列·亚巴及其草场，亚巴原是亚衲人的祖先，基列·亚巴就是希伯仑。 12而城周围的田地和乡村已经分给耶孚尼的儿子迦勒作产业。
13以色列人把避难城希伯仑分给祭司亚伦的子孙，并把立拿、 14雅提珥、以实提莫、 15何仑、底璧、 16亚因、淤他、伯·示麦共九座城及其草场分给了他们。这都是从犹大和西缅两支派分出来的。 17从便雅悯支派的产业中分给他们的城有：基遍、迦巴、 18亚拿突、亚勒们四座城及其草场。 19亚伦的子孙中做祭司的共分到十三座城邑及其草场。
20利未人哥辖宗族其他的子孙从以法莲支派的产业中分到的城邑有： 21以法莲山区的避难城示剑，基色、 22基伯先和伯·和仑共四座城及其草场。 23从但支派的产业中分给他们的城邑有：伊利提基、基比顿、 24亚雅仑和迦特·临门四座城及其草场。 25他们从玛拿西半个支派的产业中分到他纳和迦特·临门两座城及其草场。 26以上是哥辖其他的子孙所分到的十座城及其草场。
27以色列人分给利未支派中革顺子孙的城邑有：玛拿西半个支派中巴珊的哥兰避难城和比·施提拉及其草场，共两座城； 28以萨迦支派的基善、大比拉、 29耶末、隐·干宁四座城及其草场； 30亚设支派的米沙勒、押顿、 31黑甲、利合四座城及其草场； 32拿弗他利支派的哈末·多珥、加珥坦和加利利的避难城基低斯三座城及其草场。 33革顺人按宗族共分到十三座城邑及其草场。 34其余的利未人，就是米拉利的子孙所分到的城邑有：西布伦支派的约念、加珥他、 35丁拿、拿哈拉四座城及其草场； 36吕便支派的比悉、雅杂、 37基底莫、米法押四座城及其草场； 38迦得支派的玛哈念、基列的避难城拉末、 39希实本、雅谢四座城及其草场。 40利未人中米拉利的子孙按宗族所分到的城邑共有十二座。
41利未人从以色列各支派共分到四十八座城及其草场， 42这些城周围都有草场，城城如此。
43这样，耶和华把从前起誓赐给以色列人祖先的整个地区都赐给了以色列人，以色列人都分到土地，住了下来。 44耶和华照着给他们祖先的应许，使他们四境安宁，没有仇敌能抵挡他们。耶和华将所有仇敌都交在了他们手中。 45耶和华给以色列人的美好应许没有一句落空，全部实现了。
