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Then came near the heads of the fathers of the Levites unto Eleazar the priest, and unto Joshua the son of Nun, and unto the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel;
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And they spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan,saying, The LORDcommanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for our cattle.
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And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites: and the children of Aaron the priest, which were of the Levites, had by lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of Simeon, and out of the tribe of Benjamin,thirteen*cities.
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And the rest of the children of Kohath had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the halftribe of Manasseh,tencities.
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And the children of Gershon had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the halftribe of Manasseh in Bashan,thirteen*cities.
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And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are here mentioned by name,
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And they gave them the city of Arba* the father of Anak, which city is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round about it.
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And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites which remained of the children of Kohath, even they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.
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And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the other halftribe of Manasseh they gave Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Beeshterah with her suburbs;twocities.
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And out of the tribe of Naphtali,Kedesh in Galilee with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Hammothdor with her suburbs, and Kartan with her suburbs;threecities.
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And unto the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun,Jokneam with her suburbs, and Kartah with her suburbs,
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So all the cities for the children of Merari by their families, which were remaining of the families of the Levites, were by their lottwelve*cities.
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And the LORD gave them rest round about, according to all that he sware unto their fathers: and there stood not a man of all their enemiesbefore them; the LORDdelivered all their enemies into their hand.