⁸ So the Israelites allotted to the Levites these towns and their pasturelands, as the Lord had commanded through Moses.

³ So, as the Lord had commanded, the Israelites gave the Levites the following towns and pasturelands out of their own inheritance:

⁶ After you have written descriptions of the seven parts of the land, bring them here to me and I will cast lots^(A) for you in the presence of the Lord our God.

³ Then they will have towns to live in and pasturelands for the cattle they own and all their other animals.^(A)

⁵⁴ Distribute the land by lot,^(A) according to your clans.^(B) To a larger group give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group a smaller one.^(C) Whatever falls to them by lot will be theirs. Distribute it according to your ancestral tribes.^(D)

² So they came to Moses and Eleazar the priest and to the leaders of the community,^(A) and said,