The land assignments to the nine-and-a-half tribes were made by drawing lots, as the <sc>Lordsc> had instructed Moses.<n id="1" />

The rest of Kohath&#8217;s descendants were allotted ten cities from the clans of the tribe of Ephraim, and from the tribe of Dan and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

Gershon&#8217;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.

So the Israelites assigned to the Levites by lot these cities and their grazing areas, as the <sc>Lordsc> had instructed Moses.p>

<p class="bodytext">These are the land assignments which Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the Israelite tribal leaders<n id="1" /> made by drawing lots in Shiloh before the <sc>Lordsc> at the entrance of the tent of meeting.<n id="2" /> So they finished dividing up the land.p>

<p class="bodytext">The first lot belonged to<n id="1" /> the Kohathite clans. The Levites who were descendants of Aaron the priest were allotted thirteen cities from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin.