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.
分給利未人的城邑
1-2利未人的眾族長到迦南的示羅見祭司以利亞撒、嫩的兒子約書亞和以色列各支派的首領，說：「耶和華藉著摩西曾吩咐你們把一些城邑分給我們住，讓我們可以在城郊牧養牲畜。」 3以色列人便按照耶和華的吩咐，從他們的產業中把以下的城邑及城郊分給了利未人。
4利未人哥轄宗族中大祭司亞倫的子孫從猶大、西緬和便雅憫支派的產業中抽籤得了十三座城。 5哥轄宗族中其他的人也從以法蓮、但和瑪拿西半個支派的產業中抽籤得了十座城。 6革順的子孫從以薩迦、亞設、拿弗他利和在巴珊的瑪拿西半個支派的產業中抽籤得了十三座城。 7米拉利的子孫按宗族從呂便、迦得和西布倫支派的產業中抽籤得了十二座城。
8以色列人照耶和華對摩西的吩咐，把這些城邑及其草場用抽籤的方式分給利未人。
9-10利未支派哥轄宗族中亞倫的子孫得到第一籤，以下是從猶大和西緬兩支派的產業中抽出來分給他們的土地： 11猶大山區的基列·亞巴及其草場，亞巴原是亞衲人的祖先，基列·亞巴就是希伯崙。 12而城周圍的田地和鄉村已經分給耶孚尼的兒子迦勒作產業。
13以色列人把避難城希伯崙分給祭司亞倫的子孫，並把立拿、 14雅提珥、以實提莫、 15何崙、底璧、 16亞因、淤他、伯·示麥共九座城及其草場分給了他們。這都是從猶大和西緬兩支派分出來的。 17從便雅憫支派的產業中分給他們的城有：基遍、迦巴、 18亞拿突、亞勒們四座城及其草場。 19亞倫的子孫中做祭司的共分到十三座城邑及其草場。
20利未人哥轄宗族其他的子孫從以法蓮支派的產業中分到的城邑有： 21以法蓮山區的避難城示劍，基色、 22基伯先和伯·和崙共四座城及其草場。 23從但支派的產業中分給他們的城邑有：伊利提基、基比頓、 24亞雅崙和迦特·臨門四座城及其草場。 25他們從瑪拿西半個支派的產業中分到他納和迦特·臨門兩座城及其草場。 26以上是哥轄其他的子孫所分到的十座城及其草場。
27以色列人分給利未支派中革順子孫的城邑有：瑪拿西半個支派中巴珊的哥蘭避難城和比·施提拉及其草場，共兩座城； 28以薩迦支派的基善、大比拉、 29耶末、隱·干寧四座城及其草場； 30亞設支派的米沙勒、押頓、 31黑甲、利合四座城及其草場； 32拿弗他利支派的哈末·多珥、加珥坦和加利利的避難城基低斯三座城及其草場。 33革順人按宗族共分到十三座城邑及其草場。 34其餘的利未人，就是米拉利的子孫所分到的城邑有：西布倫支派的約念、加珥他、 35丁拿、拿哈拉四座城及其草場； 36呂便支派的比悉、雅雜、 37基底莫、米法押四座城及其草場； 38迦得支派的瑪哈念、基列的避難城拉末、 39希實本、雅謝四座城及其草場。 40利未人中米拉利的子孫按宗族所分到的城邑共有十二座。
41利未人從以色列各支派共分到四十八座城及其草場， 42這些城周圍都有草場，城城如此。
43這樣，耶和華把從前起誓賜給以色列人祖先的整個地區都賜給了以色列人，以色列人都分到土地，住了下來。 44耶和華照著給他們祖先的應許，使他們四境安寧，沒有仇敵能抵擋他們。耶和華將所有仇敵都交在了他們手中。 45耶和華給以色列人的美好應許沒有一句落空，全部實現了。
