⁷ The sons of Merari according to their families ^[a]received twelve cities from the tribe of Reuben and from the tribe of Gad and from the tribe of Zebulun.

⁸ So the ^(A)sons of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities with their pasture lands, as Yahweh had commanded by the hand of Moses.

⁹ They also gave from the tribe of the sons of Judah and from the tribe of the sons of Simeon these cities which are here mentioned by name;