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Then the heads of households of the LevitesapproachedEleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of households of the tribes of the sons of Israel.
2
They spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, "The LORDcommandedthroughMoses to give us cities to live in, with their pasturelands for our cattle."
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Then the lotcame out for the families of the Kohathites. And the sons of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, receivedthirteen*cities by lot from the tribe of Judah and from the tribe of the Simeonites and from the tribe of Benjamin.
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The rest of the sons of Kohath received tencities by lot from the families of the tribe of Ephraim and from the tribe of Dan and from the half-tribe* of Manasseh.
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The sons of Gershon received thirteen*cities by lot from the families of the tribe of Issachar and from the tribe of Asher and from the tribe of Naphtali and from the half-tribe* of Manasseh in Bashan.
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The sons of Merari according to their families received twelve*cities from the tribe of Reuben and from the tribe of Gad and from the tribe of Zebulun.
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They gave them Shechem, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasturelands, in the hillcountry of Ephraim, and Gezer with its pasturelands,
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To the sons of Gershon, one of the families of the Levites, from the half-tribe* of Manasseh, they gave Golan in Bashan, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasturelands, and Be-eshterah with its pasturelands; twocities.
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From the tribe of Naphtali, they gave Kedesh in Galilee, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasturelands and Hammoth-dor with its pasturelands and Kartan with its pasturelands; threecities.
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To the families of the sons of Merari, the rest of the Levites, they gave from the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with its pasturelands and Kartah with its pasturelands.
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All these were the cities of the sons of Merari according to their families, the rest of the families of the Levites; and their lot was twelve*cities.
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And the LORDgave them rest on everyside, according to all that He had sworn to their fathers, and noone of all their enemiesstoodbefore them; the LORDgaveall their enemies into their hand.