You are to assign ¹  the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they will be assigned exclusively ²  to him out of all ³  the Israelites.

The land assignments to the nine-and-a-half tribes were made by drawing lots, as the Lord had instructed Moses. ¹ 

Now Moses had assigned land ¹  to the two-and-a-half tribes east of the Jordan, but he assigned no land ²  to the Levites. ³ 

So the Israelites assigned to the Levites by lot these cities and their grazing areas, as the Lord had instructed Moses.

They assigned from the tribes of Judah and Simeon the cities listed below.

They were assigned to the Kohathite clans of the Levites who were descendants of Aaron, ¹  for the first lot belonged to them.

Shuppim and Hosah were assigned the west gate, along with the Shalleketh gate on the upper road. One guard was adjacent to another. ¹ 

Daniel then spoke to the warden ¹  whom the overseer of the court officials had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:

The families of the Gershonites were to camp behind the tabernacle toward the west.

The families of the Kohathites were to camp on the south side of the tabernacle.

This is the land assigned to the tribe of Judah by its clans: ¹ 

Joseph’s descendants, Manasseh and Ephraim, were assigned their land. ¹ 

seven Israelite tribes had not been assigned their allotted land. ¹ 

Their assigned land included ¹  Beer Sheba, ²  Moladah,

Their assigned land included Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir Shemesh,

From the tribe of Benjamin they assigned ¹  Gibeon, Geba,

From the tribe of Dan they assigned Eltekeh, Gibbethon,

(Now to one half-tribe of Manasseh, Moses had assigned land in Bashan; and to the other half Joshua had assigned land on the west side of the Jordan with their fellow Israelites.) When Joshua sent them home, ¹  he rewarded ²  them,

So the Israelites gave to the Levites these cities and their pasturelands.

The gatekeepers were posted on all four sides – east, west, north, and south.