In context
7The descendants of Merari, by their clans, received twelve towns from the tribe of Reuben, the tribe of Gad, and the tribe of Zebulun. 8So the Israelites gave the Levites these towns, with their pasturelands, by lot, as Yahweh had commanded through Moses. 9From the tribe of Judah and the tribe of Simeon they gave the towns named here, 10which went to the descendants of Aaron, from the clans of the Kohathites among the Levites, since the first lot fell to them. 11They gave them Kiriath-arba — that is, Hebron, named for the father of Anak — in the hill country of Judah, along with its surrounding pastureland,
