Shaaraim, Adithaim, and Gederah (or Gederothaim) – a total of fourteen cities and their towns.

Goshen, Holon, and Giloh – a total of eleven cities and their towns.

Kephar Ammoni, Ophni, and Geba – a total of twelve cities and their towns.

Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen – a total of thirteen cities and their towns,

The Gershonite clans received thirteen cities and their grazing areas.

Now Joshua set up in Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan.

Gederoth, Beth Dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah – a total of sixteen cities and their towns.

Manasseh was allotted ten shares of land, in addition to the land of Gilead and Bashan east of the Jordan,

Their territory included Kattah, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem; in all they had twelve cities and their towns.

Yiron, Migdal El, Horem, Beth Anath, and Beth Shemesh. In all they had nineteen cities and their towns.

Merari’s descendants by their clans were allotted twelve cities from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun.

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

Zelah, Haeleph, the Jebusite city (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah, and Kiriath – a total of fourteen cities and their towns. This was the land assigned to the tribe of Benjamin by its clans.

Their border touched Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth Shemesh, and ended at the Jordan. They had sixteen cities and their towns.

Gershon’s descendants were allotted thirteen cities from the clans of the tribe of Issachar, and from the tribes of Asher and Naphtali and the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.

The Merarite clans (the remaining Levites) were allotted twelve cities.

Instruct them, ‘Pick up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, from the very place where the priests stand firmly, and carry them over with you and put them in the place where you camp tonight.’”

The Israelites did just as Joshua commanded. They picked up twelve stones, according to the number of the Israelite tribes, from the middle of the Jordan as the Lord had instructed Joshua. They carried them over with them to the camp and put them there.

Joshua also set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan in the very place where the priests carrying the ark of the covenant stood. They remain there to this very day.

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.