1 Then the heads of households of 1the LevitesapproachedEleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of households of the tribes of the sons of Israel.
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They spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, "2The LORDcommandedthroughMoses to give us cities to live in, with their pasturelands for our cattle."
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So the sons of Israelgave the Levites from their inheritancethesecities with their pasturelands, according to the command of the LORD.
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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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Now the 3sons of Israelgave by lot to the Levitesthesecities with their pasturelands, as the LORD had commandedthroughMoses.
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They gavethesecitieswhich are here mentioned by name from the tribe of the sons of Judah and from the tribe of the sons of Simeon;
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and they were for the sons of Aaron, one of the families of the Kohathites, of the sons of Levi, for the lot was theirsfirst.
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Thus 4they gave them Kiriath-arba, Arba being the 5father of Anak (that is, Hebron ), in the hillcountry of Judah, with its surroundingpasturelands.
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But the fields of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as his possession.
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So 6to the sons of Aaron the priest they gave7Hebron, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasturelands, and 8Libnah with its pasturelands,
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and 9Jattir with its pasturelands and 10Eshtemoa with its pasturelands,
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and Holon with its pasturelands and 11Debir with its pasturelands,
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and Ain with its pasturelands and 12Juttah with its pasturelands and 13Beth-shemesh with its pasturelands; ninecities from thesetwotribes.
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From the tribe of Benjamin, 14Gibeon with its pasturelands, 15Geba with its pasturelands,
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Anathoth with its pasturelands and Almon with its pasturelands; fourcities.
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All the cities of the sons of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen*cities with their pasturelands.
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Then the cities from the tribe of Ephraim were allotted to the 16families of the sons of Kohath, the Levites, even to the rest of the sons of Kohath.
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They gave them 17Shechem, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasturelands, in the hillcountry of Ephraim, and Gezer with its pasturelands,
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and Kibzaim with its pasturelands and Beth-horon with its pasturelands; fourcities.
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From the tribe of Dan, Elteke with its pasturelands, Gibbethon with its pasturelands,
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Aijalon with its pasturelands, Gath-rimmon with its pasturelands; fourcities.
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From the half-tribe* of Manasseh, they allotted Taanach with its pasturelands and Gath-rimmon with its pasturelands; twocities.
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All the cities with their pasturelands for the families of the rest of the sons of Kohath were ten.
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18To 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 Issachar, they gave Kishion with its pasturelands, Daberath with its pasturelands,
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Jarmuth with its pasturelands, En-gannim with its pasturelands; fourcities.
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From the tribe of Asher, they gave Mishal with its pasturelands, Abdon with its pasturelands,
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Helkath with its pasturelands and Rehob with its pasturelands; fourcities.
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From the tribe of Naphtali, they gave 19Kedesh 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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All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen*cities with their pasturelands.
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To the families of 20the 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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Dimnah with its pasturelands, Nahalal with its pasturelands; fourcities.
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From the tribe of Reuben, they gave 21Bezer with its pasturelands and Jahaz with its pasturelands,
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Kedemoth with its pasturelands and Mephaath with its pasturelands; fourcities.
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From the tribe of Gad, they gave 22Ramoth in Gilead, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasturelands and 23Mahanaim with its pasturelands,
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Heshbon with its pasturelands, Jazer with its pasturelands; fourcities in all.
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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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24All the cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the sons of Israel were forty-eight*cities with their pasturelands.
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Thesecitieseachhad its surroundingpasturelands; thus it was with allthesecities.
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25So the LORDgaveIsraelall the landwhich He had sworn to give to their fathers, and 26they possessed it and lived in it.
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And the LORD27gave them rest on everyside, according to all that He had sworn to their fathers, and 28noone of all their enemiesstoodbefore them; 29the LORDgaveall their enemies into their hand.
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30Not one of the goodpromiseswhich the LORD had made to the house of Israelfailed; allcame to pass.