1 Chronicles 6:63-65

Revised Geneva Translation

⁶³ To the sons of Merari, according to their families, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, they gave (by lot) twelve cities.

⁶⁴ Thus the children of Israel gave cities (with their suburbs) to the Levites.

⁶⁵ And out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, they gave these cities by lot, which they called by their names.