They assigned, or gave, or had assigned, or given; for they were given by Moses, Deuteronomy 4:41, &c.; or they confirmed Moses's grant, and applied them to that use to which Moses designed and separated them.
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Joshua 20:8
8 And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.