All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests Those of the Kohathites that came from him: [were] thirteen cities with their suburbs; and just so many are mentioned by name in ( Joshua 21:11-18 ) .
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Anathoth, and Almon, together with their pastures - four towns.
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The total for the cities and pastures for the priests descended from Aaron came to thirteen.
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The rest of the Kohathite families from the tribe of Levi were assigned their cities by lot from the tribe of Ephraim:
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Shechem (the asylum-city for the unconvicted killer) in the hills of Ephraim, Gezer,
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