High priests

Levites

Levitical singers

³¹ David put the following in charge of the music in the Lord’s house after the chest was placed there. ³² They ministered with song before the dwelling of the meeting tent, until Solomon built the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem. They carried out their usual duties. ³³ Those who served and their families were:

Priests from Aaron’s line

⁴⁹ Aaron and his sons sacrificed on the altar for entirely burned offerings and on the altar for incense, doing all the work of the holiest place, to make reconciliation for Israel, just as Moses, God’s servant, had commanded.

Levitical cities

⁵⁴ These are the places they lived by their camps within their territory. To Aaron’s family from the Kohathite clan, as chosen by lot, ⁵⁵ they gave Hebron in the land of Judah with its surrounding pasturelands. ⁵⁶ But the city’s fields and its settlements they gave to Caleb, Jephunneh’s son. ⁵⁷ To Aaron’s family they gave the refuge cities: Hebron, Libnah with its pasturelands, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its pasturelands, ⁵⁸ Hilen^[e] with its pasturelands, Debir with its pasturelands, ⁵⁹ Ashan with its pasturelands, Juttah with its pasturelands,^[f] and Beth-shemesh with its pasturelands. ⁶⁰ From Benjamin’s tribe: Gibeon with its pasturelands,^[g] Geba with its pasturelands, Alemeth with its pasturelands, and Anathoth with its pasturelands. They had thirteen towns within their clan.

⁶¹ The remaining Kohathites were given ten towns by lot from the clan of half the tribe of Manasseh. ⁶² The Gershomites received by lot according to their clans thirteen towns from the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and Manasseh in Bashan. ⁶³ The Merarites received by lot according to their clans twelve towns from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun. ⁶⁴ In this way the Israelites gave the Levites the towns with their pasturelands. ⁶⁵ They gave these towns, which they designated by name, by lot from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin.

⁶⁶ Some of the Kohathite clans had towns of their territory from the tribe of Ephraim. ⁶⁷ They gave them refuge cities: Shechem with its pasturelands in the Ephraimite highlands, Gezer with its pasturelands, ⁶⁸ Jokmeam with its pasturelands, Beth-horon with its pasturelands, ⁶⁹ Aijalon with its pasturelands, Gath-rimmon with its pasturelands; ⁷⁰ and from half the tribe of Manasseh, Taanach^[h] with its pasturelands, and Bileam with its pasturelands, for the Kohathite clans who remained.

⁷¹ To the Gershomites from the clan of half the tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan with its pasturelands and Ashtaroth with its pasturelands; ⁷² from the tribe of Issachar: Kedesh with its pasturelands and Daberath with its pasturelands, ⁷³ Ramoth with its pasturelands and Anem with its pasturelands; ⁷⁴ from the tribe of Asher: Mashal with its pasturelands, Abdon with its pasturelands, and ⁷⁵ Helkath^[i] with its pasturelands and Rehob with its pasturelands; ⁷⁶ and from the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee with its pasturelands, Hammon with its pasturelands, and Kiriathaim with its pasturelands. ⁷⁷ To the remaining Merarites from the tribe of Zebulun: Jokneam with its pasturelands,^[j] Rimmon^[k] with its pasturelands, Tabor with its pasturelands, and Nahalal with its pasturelands;^{[l] 78} on the other side of the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, from the tribe of Reuben: Bezer in the desert with its pasturelands, Jahzah with its pasturelands, ⁷⁹ Kedemoth with its pasturelands, and Mephaath with its pasturelands; ⁸⁰ and from the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead with its pasturelands, Mahanaim with its pasturelands, ⁸¹ Heshbon with its pasturelands, and Jazer with its pasturelands.