They were assigned to the Kohathite clans of the Levites who were descendants of Aaron, for the first lot belonged to them.

The priests descended from Aaron received thirteen cities and their grazing areas.

So to the descendants of Aaron the priest they assigned Hebron (a city of refuge for one who committed manslaughter), Libnah,

I sent Moses and Aaron, and I struck Egypt down when I intervened in their land. Then I brought you out.

Eleazar son of Aaron died, and they buried him in Gibeah in the hill country of Ephraim, where his son Phinehas had been assigned land.

The first lot belonged to the Kohathite clans. The Levites who were descendants of Aaron the priest were allotted thirteen cities from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin.