⁷ The descendants of Merari and their clans were granted 12 towns from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun. ⁸ This, then, was the land granted by drawing lots for the Levites, by the other people of Israel as the Eternal had commanded through Moses—these towns with their surrounding pastures. ⁹ From the tribes of the Judahites and the Simeonites came the following towns mentioned by name,