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Joshua 21:6-24

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6Also 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 ye tribe of Naphtali, and out of the halfe tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteene cities.
7The children of Merari according to their families had out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelue cities.
8So the children of Israel gaue by lot vnto the Leuites these cities with their suburbes, as the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses.
9And they gaue out of the tribe of the children of Iudah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeo, these cities which are here named.
10And they were the childrens of Aaron being of the families of the Kohathites, and of the sonnes of Leui, (for theirs was the first lot)
11So they gaue them Kiriath-arba of the father of Anok (which is Hebron) in the mountaine of Iudah, with the suburbes of the same round about it.
12(But the lande of the citie, and the villages thereof, gaue they to Caleb the sonne of Iephunneh to be his possession)
13Thus they gaue to the children of Aaron the Priest, a citie of refuge for the slaier, euen Hebron with her suburbes, and Libnah with her suburbes,
14And Iattir with her suburbes, and Eshtemoa, and her suburbes,
15And Holon with her suburbes, and Debir with her suburbes,
16And Ain with her suburbes, and Iuttah with her suburbes, Beth-shemesh with her suburbes: nine cities out of those two tribes.
17And out of the tribe of Beniamin they gaue Gibeon with her suburbes, Geba with her suburbes,
18Anathoth with her suburbes, and Almon with her suburbes: foure cities.
19All the cities of the children of Aaron Priests, were thirteene cities with their suburbes.
20But to the families of the children of Kohath of the Leuites, which were the rest of the children of Kohath (for the cities of their lot were out of the tribe of Ephraim)
21They gaue them the citie of refuge for the slaier, Shechem with her suburbes in mount Ephraim, and Gezer with her suburbes,
22And Kibzaim with her suburbs, and Bethhoron with her suburbes: foure cities.
23And out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with her suburbes, Gibethon with her suburbes,
24Aiialon with her suburbes, Gath-rimmon with her suburbes: foure cities.

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