⁷ The descendants of M’rari according to their families received twelve cities from the tribes of Re’uven, Gad and Z’vulun. ⁸ The people of Isra’el gave by lot to the L’vi’im these cities with the surrounding open land, as Adonai had ordered through Moshe.

⁹ They gave from the tribe of the descendants of Y’hudah and from the tribe of the descendants of Shim‘on these cities here mentioned by name;