Joshua 21:20

20 For the families of the descendants of Kohath, the remaining Levites of the descendants of Kohath, they [received] the cities of their lot from the tribe of Ephraim.

Joshua 21:20 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 21:20

And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites
Who were not priests: which remained of the children of Kohath;
these are the children of Moses, as Jarchi says, and those that descended from Kohath in the lines of Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, even they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim;
and were as follow.

Joshua 21:20 In-Context

18 Anathoth and its pasturelands, Almon and its pasturelands; four cities.

19 All the cities of the descendants of Aaron the priests, thirteen cities and their pasturelands.

20 For the families of the descendants of Kohath, the remaining Levites of the descendants of Kohath, they [received] the cities of their lot from the tribe of Ephraim.

21 They gave them Shechem, the city of refuge [for] the killer, and its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer and its pasturelands,

22 Kibzaim and its pasturelands, and Beth-horon and its pasturelands; four cities.

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "sons"
• [b]. Or "sons"